Mozart - Mass in C minor, K. 427 (Bach Collegium Stuttgart, Helmuth Rilling)

Rendition of Mozart’s Mass in c minor, KV 427 by the Gächinger Kantorei Stuttgart, Bach-Collegium Stuttgart and conductor Helmuth Rilling is recorded at the Knights Hall in Schloss Wolfegg in 1988.

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Ibolya Verebics - soprano
Andrea Rost - soprano
Uwe Heilmann - tenor
Daniel Lichti - bass
Gächinger Kantorei Stuttgart
Bach Collegium Stuttgart
Helmuth Rilling - conductor

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Great Mass in C minor K. 427
I. Kyrie (Andante moderato: Chorus and soprano)
II. Gloria
Gloria in excelsis Deo (Allegro vivace: Chorus)
Laudamus te (Allegro aperto: Soprano II)
Gratias agimus tibi (Adagio: Chorus)
Domine Deus (Allegro moderato: Sopranos I and II)
Qui tollis (Largo: Double choir)
Quoniam tu solus (Allegro: Sopranos I and II, tenor)
Jesu Christe (Adagio: Chorus)
Cum Sancto Spiritu (Chorus)
III. Credo
Credo in unum Deum (Allegro maestoso: Chorus)
Et incarnatus est (Andante: Soprano I)
IV. Sanctus (Largo: Double choir)
Sanctus Dominus
Hosanna in excelsis
V. Benedictus
Benedictus qui venit (Allegro comodo: Quartet and double chorus)

After Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart had married Constanze Weber on the 4th of August 1782, he promised to compose a mass in her honour. He intended for the mass to be performed during the newlyweds’ visit to Mozart’s father in Salzburg. In January 1783 Mozart wrote to his father that his Mass in C minor ‘Grosse Messe’ was halfway finished, but when he arrived in Salzburg in July of the same year the mass was still incomplete. He would never finish the mass. The parts of the mass that Mozart did manage to compose (the Kyrie and Gloria) had their opening on the 26th of October 1783 in Salzburg, with Constanze as solo soprano.