MUSIC: Mozart (2011)

Mozart: Missae breves, KV49, KV194, KV220, KV275, KV258, KV192, KV259, KV65 (Reinhard Kammler) [2011]
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Classical | Label: DHM | Catalog Number: RD77090 | Filesonic

The words in Latin "Lord have mercy, Christ have mercy, Lord have mercy" might be affecting to someone with more belief than I have, and I confess are even touching to me who have nearly none, but I have at one time had many recordings of this little mass and they all have some opera lady singing the solo part in the Kyrie which was written for a little boy to sing - and they are stilted, poised and SUCK. But this recording has all the melancholy of adolescence with its thesis of sexual discovery and antithesis of gerontion or whatever. Anyway the boy in question, and this may be a little homo-erotic, but only subconsciously if at all, sounds like he is an aging chorister and his voice is about to change, and he sounds like he's in a bit of a pout (nasty priests can't keep their mits to themselves) and he starts off all alone singing, like a low growl kyrie almost baritone and then the clouds burst open in sunshine and the sweetest ANGEL alto honey spray ELEISON. God, it is the most beautiful thing in the world. Maybe the ONLY beautiful thing in the world. Then after another couple of choruses and full choir and the same operatic build-up of suspense, tension, conflict, whatever: the solo again, even lower this time to start off and even poutier and then the same Angelic explosion of golden dust and blinding sunlight. After that it is pure anticlimax, but those 2 solo parts are enough for a life of joy. Heaven on earth. Mozart was 17 or 18 when he wrote it.

Tracklist:
CD1
01. MISSA G-Dur KV 49: I. Kyrie
02. II. Gloria
03. III. Credo
04. IV. Sanctus
05. V. Benedictus
06. VI. Agnus Dei
07. MISSA D-Dur KV 194: I. Kyrie
08. II. Gloria
09. III. Credo
10. IV. Sanctus
11. V. Benedictus
12. VI. Agnus Dei
13. MISSA C-Dur KV 220 ('Spatzenmesse'): I. Kyrie
14. II. Gloria
15. III. Credo
16. IV. Sanctus
17. V. Benedictus
18. VI. Agnus Dei
19. MISSA B-Dur KV 275: I. Kyrie
20. II. Gloria
21. III. Credo
22. IV. Sanctus
23. V. Benedictus
24. VI. Agnus Dei

CD2
01. Missa KV 258 in C-dur: I. Kyrie
02. II. Gloria
03. III. Credo
04. IV. Sanctus
05. V. Benedictus
06. VI. Agnus Dei
07. Missa KV 192 in F-dur: I. Kyrie
08. II. Gloria
09. III. Credo
10. IV. Sanctus
11. V. Benedictus
12. VI. Agnus Dei
13. Missa KV 259 in C-dur: I. Kyrie
14. II. Gloria
15. III. Credo
16. IV. Sanctus
17. V. Benedictus
18. VI. Agnus Dei
19. Missa KV 65 in d-moll: I. Kyrie
20. II. Gloria
21. III. Credo
22. IV. Sanctus
23. V. Benedictus
24. VI. Agnus Dei

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