This reissue combines two recordings, made respectively in 1989 and 1990, by the Ensemble Vocal de Lausanne and its durable conductor Michel Corboz. Corboz founded the group in the early '60s, and its ranks of young singers have served as a training ground for a remarkable number of European careers. The two Mozart masses recorded here are both unfinished works, perhaps for that reason attracting an unusually wide variety of interpretation and speculation after the fact. Corboz cultivates a slender, natural sound from his ...
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This reissue combines two recordings, made respectively in 1989 and 1990, by the Ensemble Vocal de Lausanne and its durable conductor Michel Corboz. Corboz founded the group in the early '60s, and its ranks of young singers have served as a training ground for a remarkable number of European careers. The two Mozart masses recorded here are both unfinished works, perhaps for that reason attracting an unusually wide variety of interpretation and speculation after the fact. Corboz cultivates a slender, natural sound from his young singers, and it makes a most unusual contrast with the high-powered soloists involved in these recordings -- among others, Swiss soprano Audrey Michael is in especially fine voice here in the Mass in C minor, K. 427, and Ewa Podles appears in the Requiem, K. 626. The interpretations of Mozart heard here are careful and detailed, sacrificing emotional intensity for unusual contrasts and lightness of line. If you like the big, spacious aspect of the Mass in C minor, you may find...
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