Leopold Mozart: Missa Solemnis

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Enjoyable sleeve notes by Sylvie Kürsten quote father and son in touching homages to one another. Chorus, soloists and orchestra achieve great expression from De Marchi’s keen direction. Affective... — Choir & Organ, October 2019, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 19th Apr 2019
Catalogue No: AP205
Label: Aparté
Length: 48 minutes

International Classical Music Awards

2019

Nominee - Choral

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Mozart, L: Missa Solemnis

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Patrick Grahl (soloist), Sophie Rennert (soloist), Ludwig Mittelhammer (soloist), Arianna Vendittelli (soloist)
Das Vokalprojekt, Bayerische Kammerphilharmonie
Alessandro De Marchi

I. Kyrie eleison

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II. Gloria in excelsis Deo

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III. Laudamus te

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IV. Gratias agimus tibi

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V. Quoniam tu solus Sanctus

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VI. Cum Sancto Spiritu

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VII. Credo in unum Deum

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VIII. Et in unum Dominum

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IX. Et incarnatus est

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X. Crucifixus

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XI. Et resurrexit

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XII. Et vitam venturi saeculi

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XIII. Sanctus

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XIV. Benedictus

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XV. Hosanna

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XVI. Agnus Dei

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XVII. Dona nobis pacem

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“Right after God comes my Papa.” These were young Wolfgang’s words of praise for his father Leopold Mozart. 2019 is the anniversary of Leopold that Aparté celebrate with a gorgeous recording of his Missa Solemnis.

Alessandro de Marchi, who ran the Innsbruck Festival of Early Music right after René Jacobs, conducts the beautiful Bayerische Kammerphilharmonie from Augsburg, where Leopold was born.

By paying homage to the father, the disc puts an end to the eternal inequality of treatment, saving the father from collective oblivion and worldwide overshadowing by the child prodigy. For a long time, the Missa Solemnis haunted Wolfgang’s catalogue but we now know for sure that it’s Leopold’s.

Committed to the Leopold legacy owing to his native city of Augsburg, the Bayerische Kammerphilharmonie - together with the Das Vokalprojekt choir - approach this work afresh.

They find in Alessandro de Marchi an ally and passionate champion of unknown works, who knows how to highlight the Neapolitan subtleties from the strict contrapuntal style of this mass. For those who are desperately rummaging the secondhand market to find the only out of print recording of the Missa from 1982, an invaluable record is now available.

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October 2019

Enjoyable sleeve notes by Sylvie Kürsten quote father and son in touching homages to one another. Chorus, soloists and orchestra achieve great expression from De Marchi’s keen direction. Affective is Leopold’s adoption of muted trumpets and dampened timpani, as in the Crucifixus from Wolfgang’s Waisenhausmesse. Every delight reveals as much of young Mozart’s early influence as it does of his father’s talent.

August 2019

It’s easy to see how it might be mistaken for a work by Mozart fils: bar a certain melodic ordinariness, it boasts a harmonic richness and variety of Affekt that were characteristic of the string of Masses that Wolfgang wrote for Salzburg…The performance is fine, with attentive singing from the youthful, 24-strong Vokalprojekt. The soloists are adequate, if occasionally taxed by some awkward writing in an unfamiliar work.

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