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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791) Mass in C Major, K. 317 (Coronation Mass) Exsultate, jubilate, K. 165 Ave verum corpus, K. 618 Mozart's life was all...

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791)

Mass in C Major, K. 317 (Coronation Mass)

Exsultate, jubilate, K. 165 Ave verum corpus, K. 618

Mozart's life was all too short. Born in Salzburg in 1756, the son of a leading court musician, he amazed Europe as an infant prodigy, undertaking protracted tours under the guidance of his father. Adolescence and early manhood proved less satisfying. The Mozarts had security in Salzburg, but the city, under its new Archbishop, seemed to have little to offer, and Mozart was certain that he deserved something better. In 1781, after fulfilling a successful commission in Munich with his opera Idomeneo, he travelled to Vienna to join his patron, the Archbishop. When he was denied the opportunities that seemed within his grasp and particularly the chance of making some impression on the Emperor, he quarrelled with his employer and, not for the first but now for the last time, was dismissed.

Mozart spent the last ten years of his life principally in Vienna, without consistent patronage adequate to his needs and without the constant presence and advice of his father, who remained in Salzburg. An imprudent marriage made increasing demands on his purse, and initial success in the theatre and in public subscription concerts was followed by disappointment and the need to borrow money to meet expenses normal to one of his station. In 1791, however, his fortunes seemed to have changed for the better. From the new Emperor he had received nothing, but the German opera Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute) won popular success in the autumn, and there was the prospect of a position as adjunct to the ailing Kapellmeister at the Cathedral of St. Stephen in Vienna, with the likelihood of succession in due course. Death intervened. Mozart died in the early hours of 5th December, after a short illness.

The so-called Coronation Mass, the Mass in C major, K. 317, was completed on 23rd March, 1779, in Salzburg, where Mozart had returned after an abortive attempt to find employment in Mannheim and in Paris. He had been compelled to resign from the Archbishop's service in order to undertake a journey on which, for the first time, his father had been unable to accompany him. The fifteen months away had been expensive in monetary terms and his mother, who went with him, had died in Paris in the summer of 1778. Eventually his father managed to arrange for him a position again at Salzburg, this time as court organist, a post for which he made a formal petition in January 1779.

The composition of the Coronation Mass may be seen as a concomitant of Mozart's new duties in Salzburg. The work was apparently intended for performance at one of the two festival days of Easter in the same year, either 4th or 5th April, together with the Epistle Sonata K. 329, with its more elaborate organ part, which Mozart himself would have played. The popular name of the work, the Coronation Mass, has been supposed to originate in the association of the Mass with a commemoration of the crowning of the miraculous statue of the Blessed Virgin of Maria Plain, near Salzburg. Others have chosen to infer a connection with the coronation of the Emperor Leopold II in Prague in 1791, the occasion of the first performance of the new coronation opera La clemenza di Tito.

The Coronation Mass is scored for pairs of oboes, horns, trumpets and drums, three trombones, strings without violas, and organ, the bass line reinforced, according to custom, by bassoons. The Kyrie opens in celebratory style, before the entry of the soprano soloist and the solo tenor. As is customary, the Gloria retains a more homophonic texture in the choral writing and in the writing for solo voices until the words Domine Deus, Rex caelestis, sung by the soprano, with the tenor soloist adding the next clause, overlapping with the words before. There is space for a brief passage of imitative counterpoint in the final Amen. There is an impressively lively introduction to the Credo, largely homophonic in choral texture until the words Descendit de caelis are illustrated in descending melodic lines, one voice imitating another. The statement by the four soloists of belief in the Incarnation is duly muted, with its florid first violin accompaniment to the simple chordal texture of the vocal parts, a burst of jubilant sound being reserved for the affirmation of belief in the resurrection, The soloists propose faith in the Holy Spirit, joined by the chorus in the additional declaration of belief in the Catholic Church. There are subtle dynamic effects in the treatment of the words expressing belief in the resurrection of the dead, while the Amen again allows a brief excursion into contrapuntal writing. The more emphatic music of the Sanctus is followed by a gentler introduction to the Benedictus from the strings and organ and the four solo voices, joined by the choir and the trombones for the final Hosanna in excels is. The final Agnus Dei is at first entrusted to the soprano soloist, without the brass instruments of the orchestra, leading to a plea for peace from the four soloists, joined finally by the choir and full orchestra.

The motet Exsultate, jubilate, K. 165, belongs to a happier period of Mozart's life, when all seemed to lie before him. With his father he had first visited Italy late in 1769. A second visit followed in 1771, with the commission for a serenata, Ascanio in Alba, in Milan. The third and final visit took place in the winter of 1772, with the reluctant assent of the new Archbishop of Salzburg. The primary object of the journey was to provide a new opera, Lucio Silla, for Milan, then ruled by Archduke Ferdinand, son of the Empress Maria Theresia. The leading singer in Lucio Silla was the castrato Venanzio Rauzzini, who was shortly to make his home in England, and it was for him that Mozart wrote his Exsultate, jubilate, a work that makes considerable demands on a singer. The motet is scored for pairs of oboes and horns, strings and organ. The opening section is followed by a brief recitative, modulating from the original key of F major to the A major of the succeeding Andante. The original key is restored for the final jubilant Alleluja.

The setting of the Ave verum, K. 618, belongs to the last summer of Mozart's life and was written in Baden, where his wife was taking the waters. It was composed for the celebration of the Feast of Corpus Christi and designed for his friend Anton. Stoll, a schoolmaster with responsibility for a church choir. The music, in its simple clarity, represents a more popular and less formal type of church music, rather in the spirit of those Josephine reforms to which Mozart had earlier taken such exception in Salzburg.

Priti Coles

The English-born lyric coloratura soprano Priti Coles started her career in Holland where she performed at the Netherlands Opera in Amsterdam and the Opera Forum Eschede. In 1986 she made her Viennese debut as Mary in the world premiere of Chailly's La Cantatrice Clava and since then has built a distinguished reputation as a Mozart specialist, especially for her performance of Silvia in the much acclaimed Vienna production of Mozart's Ascanio in Alba.

Anna di Mauro

Anna di Mauro received her concert-diploma as a pianist at the Stuttgart Musikhochschule. After taking vocal lessons privately in Italy, she received her diploma as a teacher of singing at the Conservatorio Rossini in Pesaro and in 1985 made her operatic debut in Essen as Charlotte in Massenet's Werther. A series of operatic engagements followed throughout Germany with recitals there and in France, Italy and Russia. Since that time she has had a very active career in a varied operatic repertoire, including the roles of Santuzza and Amneris at the Arena in Verona and of Carmen in Mantua. Anna di Mauro is also well known as a recitalist and as a concert soloist.

John Dickie

John Dickie was born in London and grew up in Vienna, where his father was for thirty years a singer with the Vienna State Opera. After leaving school, he spent three years at the Vienna Musikhochschule as a student of Luise Scheid, followed by two years at the Conservatory as a pupil of Hilde Zadek, undertaking study of Italian roles in Florence under Flaminio Contini during the summer months. After three years experience at the Vienna Volksoper, John Dickie's first engagement was at Wuppertal, where he was able to study and perform various lyric tenor roles under the direction of Hellmuth Matthiasek and Hans-Martin Schneidt. He followed this with three seasons at Mannheim. During this period he made his first appearance at the Vienna State Opera in The Barber of Seville and at the German Opera in Berlin in The Merry Wives of Windsor. From Mannheim he moved to Hamburg for two further seasons at the Staatsoper, at this time making his Covent Garden début as Almaviva in The Barber of Seville. John Dickie was invited by Eberhard Waechter, the new director of the Vienna Opera Houses, to return to Vienna. He has since then fulfilled engagements in Hamburg, Cologne and other important opera-houses. He has appeared, in addition, at the German Opera of the Rhine, the Theatre National de l'Opera de Paris and the Grand Theatre de Geneve. In 1981 he sang for the first time at the Bregenz Festival, appearing as Tamino in the famous Savcary production of Die Zauberflöte. John Dickie has appeared often on television, in particular in a distinguished production of Gluck's Orphée in Paris, a project of OAF and East German Television. He sang the part of the Evangelist and the tenor arias of the St. Matthew Passion for the first time in Leipzig in the autumn of 1989 under the direction of Max Pommer.

Andrea Martin

The baritone Andrea Martin studied in Vienna and in Rome under the most distinguished teachers and began his operatic career in Austria with the Vienna Chamber Opera in Klagenfurt, Salzburg and Graz, and in Germany in Hagen and Munich. He appeared as Dr. Malatesta in Don Pasquale in Treviso in 1979 and after winning various prizes in international competitions sang at the major Italian opera-houses, appearing abroad in Barcelona, Lisbon, Paris and the United States of America. His career has brought appearances in North and South America and in the Far East and his many less usual recordings include roles in operas by Donizetti and Salieri.

Camerata Cassovia

The Camerata Cassovia is the chamber ensemble of the CSFR State Philharmonic Orchestra which is based in the Eastern Slovakian town of Ko?ice. The orchestra was founded in 1968 and has toured widely within Europe and the Far East.

Johannes Wildner

Johannes Wildner was born in the Austrian resort of Murzzuschlag in 1956 and studied violin and conducting, taking his diploma at the Vienna Musikhochschule and proceeding to a doctorate in musicology. A member of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, he has toured widely as leader of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra's Johann Strauss Ensemble and of the Vienna Mozart Academy. As a conductor he has directed the Orchestra Sinfonica dell��Emilia Romagna Arturo Toscanini, the Budapest State Opera Orchestra, the Silesian Philharmonic, the Malmo Symphony Orchestra, the Dresden Philharmonic and others. He has recorded works by Schumann, Wagner and Mozart for Naxos and is one of the main conductors in the Marco Polo Johann Strauss II complete edition. He also conducted at the Arena of Verona, the Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra, Radio Symphony-Orchestra of Munich and is musical director of the Ko?ice State Philharmonic Orchestra.

Disc 1

Mass No. 16 in C major, K. 317, "Kronungsmesse" (Coronation Mass)

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Performed by: Stuttgart Philharmonic Orchestra Camerata Cassovia Stuttgart Bach Collegium
Composed by: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Conducted by: Peter Marschik Johannes Wildner Helmuth Rilling
Priti Coles, soprano
John Dickie, tenor
Barbara Schlick, soprano
Andrea Martin, baritone
Anna di Mauro, mezzo-soprano
Thomas Quasthoff, bass
Marcus Ullmann, tenor
Klaus Hager, bass
Donna Brown, soprano
Benjamin Schmidinger, soprano
Albin Lenzer, alto
Michael Knapp, tenor
Ernst Jankowitsch, bass
Georg Stangelberger, organ
Claudia Schubert, alto

Kyrie - 2:49
Gloria from Mass in C major, K. 317, "Coronation" - 4:16
Credo - 6:53
Sanctus from Mass in C major, K. 317, "Coronation" - 1:31
Benedictus - 3:45
Agnus Dei - 6:23

Vesperae solennes de confessore, K. 339

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Performed by: Cologne Symphony Orchestra Camerata Cassovia Collegium Instrumentale Brugense Berlin Babelsberg Film Orchestra Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra Stuttgart Bach Collegium Cologne Gurzenich Orchestra
Composed by: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Patrick Peire Noel Edison Matthew Larkin
Conducted by: Klaus Knubben Gotthilf Fischer Ivan Fischer Johannes Wildner Helmuth Rilling Joseph Flummerfelt Dennis Keene
Robin Leigh Massie, soprano
Priti Coles, soprano
Maria Zadori, soprano
John Dickie, tenor
Barbara Schlick, soprano
Jan van der Crabben, bass
Philip McCann,
Simon Lindley, organ
Renaat Deckers, tenor
Marijke van Arnhem, mezzo-soprano
Andrea Martin, baritone
Anna di Mauro, mezzo-soprano
Karina Gauvin, soprano
Nancienne Parrella, organ
Mark Kruczek, organ
Marcus Ullmann, tenor
Klaus Hager, bass
Donna Brown, soprano
Hei-Kyung Hong, soprano
Eva Lind, soprano
Claudia Schubert, alto
Greta de Reyghere, soprano
Recording date: 10-15 June 1991

Laudate Dominum - 4:57

Sub tuum praesidium - offertorium, K. 198

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Performed by: Camerata Cassovia West German Radio Symphony Orchestra
Composed by: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Anonymous
Conducted by: Johannes Wildner Helmut Froschauer
Priti Coles, soprano
John Dickie, tenor
Andrea Martin, baritone
Anna di Mauro, mezzo-soprano
Lenneke Ruiten, soprano
Uta-Christina Georg, mezzo-soprano
Recording date: 10-15 June 1991

Sub tuum praesidium - offertorium, K. 198 - 5:34

Concerto in B flat major, RV 579, "Concerto funebre"

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Performed by: Concerto Koln
Composed by: Antonio Vivaldi
Rinaldo Alessandrini, harpsichord

Ave verum corpus in D major, K. 618 - 2:53

Ave verum corpus, K. 618

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Performed by: St. Clement Concert Orchestra Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra Camerata Cassovia West German Radio Symphony Orchestra Berlin Symphony Orchestra Cologne Gurzenich Orchestra Vienna Volksoper Orchestra Wiener Volksoper Orchestra Vienna Volksoper Symphony Orchestra Munich Residence Orchestra
Composed by: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Anonymous Noel Edison
Conducted by: Peter Marschik Marcus Creed Klaus Knubben Hans Rudolf Zobeley John Pryce-Jones Johannes Wildner Randall Swanson Helmut Froschauer Joseph Flummerfelt Alphons von Aarburg
Priti Coles, soprano
John Dickie, tenor
Paul Halley, organ
Darius Battiwalla, organ
Andrea Martin, baritone
Anna di Mauro, mezzo-soprano
Walton Gronroos, baritone
Gabriele Schreckenbach, alto
Michael Thompson, horn
Celina Lindsley, soprano
Werner Hollweg, tenor
Daniel Winiger, organ

Ave verum corpus in D major, K. 618 - 2:53

Exsultate jubilate, K. 165

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Performed by: Camerata Cassovia Camerata Salzburg CBC Radio Orchestra Concertgebouw Chamber Orchestra Quebec Symphony Orchestra Montreal Metropolitan Orchestra Philharmonia Orchestra Stuttgart Bach Collegium Studio orchestra Galicia Symphony Orchestra
Composed by: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Anonymous
Conducted by: Victor Pablo Perez Ed Spanjaard Johannes Wildner Joseph Rescigno Pascal Verrot George W. Byng Helmuth Rilling Walter Susskind Bernard Labadie Ernst Hinreiner
Priti Coles, soprano
Elisabeth Schumann, soprano
Maria Bayo, soprano
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, soprano
Anna di Mauro, mezzo-soprano
Karina Gauvin, soprano
Lyne Fortin, soprano
Marcus Ullmann, tenor
Klaus Hager, bass
Donna Brown, soprano
Lenneke Ruiten, soprano
Gabriele Fuchs, soprano
Robert Kuppelwieser, organ
Claudia Schubert, alto
Recording date: 10-15 June 1991

Exsultate, jubilate, K. 165 - 15:14

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Composer(s):
Anonymous; Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

Conductor(s):
Wildner, Johannes

Orchestra(s):
Camerata Cassovia

Artist(s):
Coles, Priti; Dickie, John; Martin, Andrea; Mauro, Anna di

Label: Naxos Classics
UPC: 730099549523
Item Number: 8550495
Release Date: Jun 10, 1992