Album Description
CORO is very proud to announce the first recording by Harry Christophers with the Handel and Haydn Society.
This brand new recording of Mozart’s Mass in C minor features Harry Christophers in his role as Artistic Director and conductor of the Handel and Haydn Society - America’s oldest continuously performing orchestra and chorus.
In September 2008 Harry Christophers was appointed Artistic Director of Boston’s internationally-acclaimed Handel and Haydn Society. Founded in 1815, the Society premiered key works by Handel, Bach and Haydn in America, has won a Grammy Award and also has a place in the American Classical Music Hall of Fame. Harry has worked with the Society since 2006 and his inaugural concert as Artistic Director was in December 2009 with Handel’s Messiah.
Mozart’s Mass in C minor needs little introduction - one of the best-known and most widely performed of the composer’s mass settings, it is generally considered to be one of his greatest works and, as such, is often referred to as the ‘Great Mass’. It is a remarkable union of musical vision and religious text and draws on Mozart’s skill for drama that made his operatic works such a phenomenal success.
Artists
Gillian Keith: soprano
Tove Dahlberg: mezzo soprano
Thomas Cooley: tenor
Nathan Berg: bass-baritone
Handel and Haydn Society
Harry ChristophersTrack Listing
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Mass in C minor
1. Kyrie Gloria
2. Gloria in excelsis Deo
3. Laudamus te
4. Gratias
5. Domine Deus
6. Qui tollis
7. Quoniam
8. Jesu Christe
9. Cum Sancto Spiritu Credo
10. Credo
11. Et incarnatus est
12. Sanctus
13. Osanna
14. Benedictus
TOTAL PLAYING TIME: 55min
