Bach Colegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki – Mozart: C minor Mass (2016) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Bach Colegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki – Mozart: C minor Mass (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:11:17 minutes | 1,31 GB | Genre: Classical
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Following on the 2015 release of Mozart’s Requiem, Masaaki Suzuki and his Bach Collegium Japan has gone on to record the composers Mass in C minor, K427 – the ‘Great Mass’. As the nickname indicates it is a work of unusual proportions for a mass of the Classical period – or would have been so, had Mozart completed it. It is not known for what occasion Mozart intended the work, but a letter to his father Leopold dated 4 January 1783 indicate that he may have committed himself to writing it in connection with his marriage to Constanze and a planned visit to Salzburg.

A performance of parts of the Mass did take place in Salzburg in October 1783, with Constanze performing the prominent soprano part. Two years later Mozart reused the music from the Kyrie and Gloria sections in the sacred cantata Davidde penitente, K 469, but the Mass itself was left incomplete. The present performance includes the sections completed by Mozart himself, as well as those sections for which extensive sketches by Mozart provided a basis for completion (by Franz Beyer in 1989).

Three of Suzuki’s soloists also took part in the recording of the Requiem, while the Dutch mezzo-soprano Olivia Vermeulen makes her first appearance on BIS, shining in the aria Laudamus te. The disc closes with the celebrated cantata Exsultate, jubilate in which the soprano Carolyn Sampson glitters in the virtuosic solo part. As an appendix to the programme she and the Bach Collegium Japan orchestra also repeats the initial aria, in a less well-known later version with a slightly different text and with flutes replacing the oboes of the original.

Tracklist:
01. Carolyn Sampson, Olivia Vermeulen, Makato Sakurada, Christian Immler, Bach Colegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki – Mass in C minor, K427: Kyrie eleison (07:36)
02. Carolyn Sampson, Olivia Vermeulen, Makato Sakurada, Christian Immler, Bach Colegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki – Mass in C minor, K427: Gloria in excelsis Deo (02:23)
03. Carolyn Sampson, Olivia Vermeulen, Makato Sakurada, Christian Immler, Bach Colegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki – Mass in C minor, K427: Laudamus te (04:35)
04. Carolyn Sampson, Olivia Vermeulen, Makato Sakurada, Christian Immler, Bach Colegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki – Mass in C minor, K427: Gratias agimus tibi (01:20)
05. Carolyn Sampson, Olivia Vermeulen, Makato Sakurada, Christian Immler, Bach Colegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki – Mass in C minor, K427: Domine Deus (02:38)
06. Carolyn Sampson, Olivia Vermeulen, Makato Sakurada, Christian Immler, Bach Colegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki – Mass in C minor, K427: Qui tollis peccata mundi (05:36)
07. Carolyn Sampson, Olivia Vermeulen, Makato Sakurada, Christian Immler, Bach Colegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki – Mass in C minor, K427: Quoniam tu solus sanctus (03:32)
08. Carolyn Sampson, Olivia Vermeulen, Makato Sakurada, Christian Immler, Bach Colegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki – Mass in C minor, K427: Jesu Christe (00:40)
09. Carolyn Sampson, Olivia Vermeulen, Makato Sakurada, Christian Immler, Bach Colegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki – Mass in C minor, K427: Cum Sancto Spiritu (03:36)
10. Carolyn Sampson, Olivia Vermeulen, Makato Sakurada, Christian Immler, Bach Colegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki – Mass in C minor, K427: Credo in unum Deum (03:27)
11. Carolyn Sampson, Olivia Vermeulen, Makato Sakurada, Christian Immler, Bach Colegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki – Mass in C minor, K427: Et incarnatus est (08:14)
12. Carolyn Sampson, Olivia Vermeulen, Makato Sakurada, Christian Immler, Bach Colegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki – Mass in C minor, K427: Sanctus – Hosanna (03:35)
13. Carolyn Sampson, Olivia Vermeulen, Makato Sakurada, Christian Immler, Bach Colegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki – Mass in C minor, K427: Benedictus – Hosanna (05:11)
14. Carolyn Sampson, Olivia Vermeulen, Makato Sakurada, Christian Immler, Bach Colegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki – Exsultate, jubilate, K165: I. Exsultate, jubilate (04:21)
15. Carolyn Sampson, Olivia Vermeulen, Makato Sakurada, Christian Immler, Bach Colegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki – Exsultate, jubilate, K165: II. Fulget amica dies (00:45)
16. Carolyn Sampson, Olivia Vermeulen, Makato Sakurada, Christian Immler, Bach Colegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki – Exsultate, jubilate, K165: III. Tu virginum corona (06:15)
17. Carolyn Sampson, Olivia Vermeulen, Makato Sakurada, Christian Immler, Bach Colegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki – Exsultate, jubilate, K165: IV. Alleluja (02:32)
18. Carolyn Sampson, Olivia Vermeulen, Makato Sakurada, Christian Immler, Bach Colegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki – Exsultate, jubilate (version with flutes) – excerpt – Aria: Exsultate, jubilate (04:54)

Personnel:
Bach Collegium Japan chorus & orchestra
Masaaki Suzuki direction
Carolyn Sampson soprano
Olivia Vermeulen mezzo-soprano
Makoto Sakurada tenor
Christian Immler baritone

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