Carolina Ullrich, Elvira Bill, Patrick Grahl, Dominik Köninger, WDR Radio Choir, Cologne Chamber Orchestra & Christoph Poppen - Mozart: Complete Masses, Vol. 3 (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/48 kHz | Front Cover & Digital Booklet | Time - 69:33 minutes | 683 MB
Classical, Sacred, Choral | Label: Naxos Records, Official Digital Download
The third volume of Mozart’s Masses focuses on works written in Salzburg when the composer was in his late teens and early twenties. The Missa in honorem Sanctissimae Trinitatis , a bright celebratory work, is the only Mass setting without soloists that Mozart composed. The Missa Brevis in D major is a compact, economic setting conforming to the Archbishop’s dictates for shorter works. Its companion, the Missa Brevis in B flat major , though keenly responsive and beautiful, upset church musicians because it utilised a Parisian gavotte in the ‘Dona nobis pacem’ and ended Mozart’s employment on a provocative note.