Whatever the sincerity of his belief in the Austrian Catholic faith of his childhood, Mozart's setting of the ordinary of the central rite of the church are strictly pro forma. Most of the settings are from Mozart's youth in Salzburg and only the unfinished C minor Mass and D minor Requiem come from his short maturity in Vienna. In this 11-disc set from the Philips' 1991 Mozart edition, Mozart's early masses take up seven of the discs with a disc each for the unfinished Mass and Requiem and two discs for the organ sonatas. ...
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Whatever the sincerity of his belief in the Austrian Catholic faith of his childhood, Mozart's setting of the ordinary of the central rite of the church are strictly pro forma. Most of the settings are from Mozart's youth in Salzburg and only the unfinished C minor Mass and D minor Requiem come from his short maturity in Vienna. In this 11-disc set from the Philips' 1991 Mozart edition, Mozart's early masses take up seven of the discs with a disc each for the unfinished Mass and Requiem and two discs for the organ sonatas. In serious, inflexible performances by Herbert Kegel leading East German forces, Mozart's youthful masses seem especially charmless despite often lovely solo singing. Interpolated amongst Kegel's performances are three more graceful and ingratiating performances by Colin Davis and Uwe Harrer, but the best performances here are John Eliot Gardiner's grandly lyrical C minor Mass and Peter Schreier's profoundly mournful D minor Requiem. The inclusion of Daniel Chorzempa's virtuosic...
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