While listening to Charles Mackerras' splendid recording of Schubert's E flat major Mass, one might well come to wonder why the work is not performed and recorded more often as well as why it is not rated among the greatest Mass settings of the period. So masterful is Mackerras' conducting and so compelling his interpretation that Schubert's final Mass stands revealed as an aesthetic match of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven's best settings. Recorded live in the Dresden Frauenkirche with the Staatskapelle Dresden, the ...
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While listening to Charles Mackerras' splendid recording of Schubert's E flat major Mass, one might well come to wonder why the work is not performed and recorded more often as well as why it is not rated among the greatest Mass settings of the period. So masterful is Mackerras' conducting and so compelling his interpretation that Schubert's final Mass stands revealed as an aesthetic match of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven's best settings. Recorded live in the Dresden Frauenkirche with the Staatskapelle Dresden, the Staatsopernchor Dresden, and four soloists in April 2008, Mackerras' performance is enormous in conception and flawless in execution. He envisions Schubert's last Mass as a testament to his faith, albeit a faith that was not Catholicism since the composer purposefully omitted portions of the text, but a larger and more all-encompassing faith that includes all humanity in its capacious embrace. With its vigorous choral writing brilliantly performed, its strenuous orchestral writing superbly...
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