Johann Simon Mayr was a German composer who sought and found his fortune in Italy, becoming a teacher to Donizetti, among others. He wrote numerous operas, plus works in other genres such as the Mass in E flat major, composed around 1843 and reconstructed here by the present conductor, Franz Hauk. The mass has links to operatic practice and to an opera-like tradition known as the number mass or missa concertata , but really it's one of a kind. The action seems to speed up, as it were, as the mass proceeds. In the Kyrie and ...
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Johann Simon Mayr was a German composer who sought and found his fortune in Italy, becoming a teacher to Donizetti, among others. He wrote numerous operas, plus works in other genres such as the Mass in E flat major, composed around 1843 and reconstructed here by the present conductor, Franz Hauk. The mass has links to operatic practice and to an opera-like tradition known as the number mass or missa concertata , but really it's one of a kind. The action seems to speed up, as it were, as the mass proceeds. In the Kyrie and the 53-minute Gloria, most sections are preceded by a long, sometimes startlingly long, instrumental section; the orchestra emerges as almost an equal partner to the choir and soloists. Then, at the Incarnatus in the Credo, ornamented by a really lovely solo violin line, this structure breaks down; the story of the Incarnation, Crucifixion, and Resurrection is told in extremely vivid pictorial music. From there, the mass concludes quickly. It's not shaped like any other mass in...
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