Mozart: Sacred Choral Works / Arman, Academy for Ancient Music

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BR Klassik
Release Date
January 6, 2023
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    • PERFORMER
      Katharina Konradi, Sophie Harmsen, Steve Davislim, Kresimir Strazanac, Niklaus Pfannkuch, Raphael Al
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      January 06, 2023
    • UPC
      4035719005301
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      BRK900530
    • LABEL
      BR Klassik
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Kyrie (Soprano, Tenor, Chorus)

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin

      Performer: Katharina Konradi, Steve Davislim, Raphael Alpermann

      Conductor: Howard Arman

    2. Gloria (Soprano, Alto, Tenor, Bass, Chorus)

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin

      Performer: Katharina Konradi, Sophie Harmsen, Steve Davislim, Krešimir Stražanac, Raphael Alpermann

      Conductor: Howard Arman

    3. Church Sonata No. 16 in C Major, K. 329

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin

      Performer: Raphael Alpermann

      Conductor: Howard Arman

    4. Credo (Soprano, Alto, Tenor, Bass, Chorus)

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin

      Performer: Katharina Konradi, Sophie Harmsen, Steve Davislim, Krešimir Stražanac, Raphael Alpermann

      Conductor: Howard Arman

    5. Alma Dei creatoris, K. 277

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin

      Performer: Katharina Konradi, Sophie Harmsen, Steve Davislim, Krešimir Stražanac, Raphael Alpermann

      Conductor: Howard Arman

    6. Sanctus (Chorus)

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin

      Performer: Raphael Alpermann

      Conductor: Howard Arman

    7. Benedictus (Soprano, Alto, Tenor, Bass, Chorus)

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin

      Performer: Katharina Konradi, Sophie Harmsen, Steve Davislim, Krešimir Stražanac, Raphael Alpermann

      Conductor: Howard Arman

    8. Agnus Dei (Soprano, Alto, Tenor, Bass, Chorus)

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin

      Performer: Katharina Konradi, Sophie Harmsen, Steve Davislim, Krešimir Stražanac, Raphael Alpermann

      Conductor: Howard Arman

    9. Dixit Dominus

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin

      Performer: Katharina Konradi, Sophie Harmsen, Steve Davislim, Krešimir Stražanac, Raphael Alpermann

      Conductor: Howard Arman

    10. Confitebor

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin

      Performer: Katharina Konradi, Sophie Harmsen, Steve Davislim, Krešimir Stražanac, Raphael Alpermann

      Conductor: Howard Arman

    11. Beatus vir

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin

      Performer: Katharina Konradi, Sophie Harmsen, Steve Davislim, Krešimir Stražanac, Raphael Alpermann

      Conductor: Howard Arman

    12. Laudate Pueri

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin

      Performer: Raphael Alpermann

      Conductor: Howard Arman

    13. Laudate Dominum

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin

      Performer: Katharina Konradi, Raphael Alpermann

      Conductor: Howard Arman

    14. Magnificat

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin

      Performer: Katharina Konradi, Sophie Harmsen, Steve Davislim, Krešimir Stražanac, Raphael Alpermann

      Conductor: Howard Arman


The mass that Mozart composed in 1779 for the Easter service in Salzburg Cathedral is shrouded in legend. From the very first bar onwards, it exudes the stately tone that would, much later on, earn it the sobriquet "Coronation Mass". Soon after Mozart's death, it became the Viennese court orchestra’s favorite mass for coronation ceremonies.

This new release from BR-KLASSIK is a live recording of a concert, performed on May 21, 2022 in the Herkulessaal of the Munich Residenz. That concert of sacred music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart included three other, lesser-known compositions that were also written during his time in Salzburg. Here they are woven in between the short movements of the Coronation Mass, and thus connected to the Mass in a way that might have been required by the practical performance conditions of a Salzburg church service.

In his "Vesperae solennes de Dominica", composed during the same year as the Mass, Mozart fulfilled the Salzburg prince-archbishop's demands for the greatest possible brevity in a tongue-in-cheek manner, by means of various compositional tricks as well as a particularly sonorous score. The album is rounded off by the "Epistle Sonata" for orchestra with obbligato organ in C major, K 329, written to accompany the "Coronation Mass", as well as by the solemn offertory "Alma Dei creatoris" for soloists, choir and orchestra in F major, K 277.

The first-rate cast of soloists consists of Katharina Konradi (soprano), Sophie Harmsen (mezzo-soprano), Steve Davislim (tenor) and Krešimir Stražanac (bass). The soloists and the excellent Bavarian Radio Chorus are accompanied by the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, one of the most renowned orchestras in the field of historical and historically informed performance practice. The conductor is Howard Arman.