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After a proliferation of recordings from Marc Minkowski and The Musicians of the Louvre for several years, they have now become scarcer. Fans will, therefore, be very pleased to find him here in this well-polished version of the Great Mass in C minor, a work that was left unfinished by Mozart. It is difficult to play in its current state and has been reconstructed a dozen times with varying degrees of success. Here, Minkowski set his sights on the version reconstructed by Austrian composer and conductor Helmut Eder, who published it in the New Mozart Edition in 1985. It is well known that this monumental work, which should have been as long as Bach’s Mass in B minor or Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis had it been completed, was never commissioned and was composed as a thanksgiving for the recovery of his fiancé, Konstanze Weber. It is still a mystery why the work was left incomplete but there are probably multiple reasons for this. The original manuscript was found at the end of the 1970s and contains three-quarters of the work. It represents a kind of culmination of Western sacred music with the complete assimilation of earlier styles and a distinct Mozartian sound. Recorded in concert in Grenoble in 2018 following a European tour, this new version is performed using a reduced choir in keeping with its premiere performance in the small St. Peter’s Abbey in Salzburg, 1783. © François Hudry/Qobuz
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer - Les Musiciens du Louvre, Orchestra, MainArtist - Ana Maria Labin, MainArtist, SopranoSolo - Marc Minkowsk, Conductor, MainArtist
2020 Pentatone Music B.V. 2020 Pentatone Music B.V.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer - Marc Minkowski, Conductor, MainArtist - Les Musiciens du Louvre, MainArtist, MusicalEnsemble
2020 Pentatone Music B.V. 2020 Pentatone Music B.V.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer - Marc Minkowski, Conductor, MainArtist - Les Musiciens du Louvre, MainArtist, MusicalEnsemble - Ambroisine Bré, MainArtist, SopranoSolo
2020 Pentatone Music B.V. 2020 Pentatone Music B.V.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer - Marc Minkowski, Conductor, MainArtist - Les Musiciens du Louvre, MainArtist, MusicalEnsemble
2020 Pentatone Music B.V. 2020 Pentatone Music B.V.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer - Marc Minkowski, Conductor, MainArtist - Les Musiciens du Louvre, MainArtist, MusicalEnsemble - Ambroisine Bré, MainArtist, SopranoSolo - Anna Maria Labin, MainArtist, SopranoSolo
2020 Pentatone Music B.V. 2020 Pentatone Music B.V.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer - Marc Minkowski, Conductor, MainArtist - Les Musiciens du Louvre, MainArtist, MusicalEnsemble - Ambroisine Bré, MainArtist, SopranoSolo - Stanislas de Berbeyrac, MainArtist, TenorSolo
2020 Pentatone Music B.V. 2020 Pentatone Music B.V.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer - Marc Minkowski, Conductor, MainArtist - Les Musiciens du Louvre, MainArtist, MusicalEnsemble - Ambroisine Bré, MainArtist, SopranoSolo - Anna Maria Labin, MainArtist, SopranoSolo - Stanislas de Berbeyrac, MainArtist, TenorSolo
2020 Pentatone Music B.V. 2020 Pentatone Music B.V.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer - Marc Minkowski, Conductor, MainArtist - Les Musiciens du Louvre, MainArtist, MusicalEnsemble
2020 Pentatone Music B.V. 2020 Pentatone Music B.V.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer - Marc Minkowski, Conductor, MainArtist - Les Musiciens du Louvre, MainArtist, MusicalEnsemble
2020 Pentatone Music B.V. 2020 Pentatone Music B.V.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer - Marc Minkowski, Conductor, MainArtist - Les Musiciens du Louvre, MainArtist, MusicalEnsemble
2020 Pentatone Music B.V. 2020 Pentatone Music B.V.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer - Marc Minkowski, Conductor, MainArtist - Les Musiciens du Louvre, MainArtist, MusicalEnsemble - Anna Maria Labin, MainArtist, SopranoSolo
2020 Pentatone Music B.V. 2020 Pentatone Music B.V.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer - Marc Minkowski, Conductor, MainArtist - Les Musiciens du Louvre, MainArtist, MusicalEnsemble
2020 Pentatone Music B.V. 2020 Pentatone Music B.V.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer - Marc Minkowski, Conductor, MainArtist - Les Musiciens du Louvre, MainArtist, MusicalEnsemble - Ambroisine Bré, MainArtist, SopranoSolo - Norman Patzke, MainArtist, BassVocals - Anna Maria Labin, MainArtist, SopranoSolo - Stanislas de Berbeyrac, MainArtist, TenorSolo
2020 Pentatone Music B.V. 2020 Pentatone Music B.V.
Album review
After a proliferation of recordings from Marc Minkowski and The Musicians of the Louvre for several years, they have now become scarcer. Fans will, therefore, be very pleased to find him here in this well-polished version of the Great Mass in C minor, a work that was left unfinished by Mozart. It is difficult to play in its current state and has been reconstructed a dozen times with varying degrees of success. Here, Minkowski set his sights on the version reconstructed by Austrian composer and conductor Helmut Eder, who published it in the New Mozart Edition in 1985. It is well known that this monumental work, which should have been as long as Bach’s Mass in B minor or Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis had it been completed, was never commissioned and was composed as a thanksgiving for the recovery of his fiancé, Konstanze Weber. It is still a mystery why the work was left incomplete but there are probably multiple reasons for this. The original manuscript was found at the end of the 1970s and contains three-quarters of the work. It represents a kind of culmination of Western sacred music with the complete assimilation of earlier styles and a distinct Mozartian sound. Recorded in concert in Grenoble in 2018 following a European tour, this new version is performed using a reduced choir in keeping with its premiere performance in the small St. Peter’s Abbey in Salzburg, 1783. © François Hudry/Qobuz
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 13 track(s)
- Total length: 00:48:19
- Main artists: Marc Minkowski Les Musiciens du Louvre Anna Maria Labin Ambroisine Bré Stanislas de Berbeyrac Norman Patzke
- Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Label: PENTATONE
- Genre: Classical Sacred Vocal Music
2020 Pentatone Music B.V. 2020 Pentatone Music B.V.
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