Haydn's Missa Cellensis (the title refers to the town of Mariazell in the region of Styria, for which the mass was composed) is among the most distinctive of his early compositions, and one that succeeds entirely on its own terms rather than pointing toward later developments in his style. Furthermore, if it had direct models, they haven't yet surfaced. Perhaps it seems especially fresh in this magnficent performance by the historical-performance orchestra and chorus Anima Eterna and Belgian conductor Jos van Immerseel. The ...
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Haydn's Missa Cellensis (the title refers to the town of Mariazell in the region of Styria, for which the mass was composed) is among the most distinctive of his early compositions, and one that succeeds entirely on its own terms rather than pointing toward later developments in his style. Furthermore, if it had direct models, they haven't yet surfaced. Perhaps it seems especially fresh in this magnficent performance by the historical-performance orchestra and chorus Anima Eterna and Belgian conductor Jos van Immerseel. The work, which breaks up the text into small sections, reveals a personal piety absent from the abstract structures and rather formal quality of Haydn's big late masses. A close stylistic comparison would be Mozart's Coronation Mass, K. 317, and indeed there are passages that make you wonder whether Mozart knew Haydn's work. Haydn's soprano soloist seems to emerge, strikingly, out of the choir's opening phrases with the word "Credo" (I believe), while Mozart at the end of the Credo has...
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