BBC Proms 2023 - Prom 29 - Mozart’s Mass in C minor (320kbps .mp3)

Live at the BBC Proms: John Butt directs the Dunedin Consort in Mozart’s magnificent Mass in C minor and before it motets by father and son, JS and CPE Bach - with soloists including Lucy Crowe, Nardus Williams and Jess Dandy.

Presented by Hannah French, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

01. Bach, JS - Sinfonia in D major, BWV 1045
01a. Introduction to BBC Proms 2023 - Prom 29
02. Bach, JS - Singet dem Herrn, BWV 225
02a. Introduction to Heilig ist Gott
03. Bach, CPE - Heilig ist Gott
03a. BBC Proms 2023 - Prom 29 - Interval
Conceived on a colossal scale and harking back to Baroque models, Mozart's Mass in C minor features some of the most wonderful music he ever wrote, including grand choruses and voluptuous arias (Stravinsky famously characterised Mozart's masses as ‘rococo-operatic sweets-of-sin’). Laura Tunbridge talks to Hannah French about the circumstances behind the Mass in C minor, Mozart's often ambivalent attitude towards liturgical music and what motivated him to embark on – and then abandon – the hugely ambitious project.
04. Mozart (compl. Kemme) - Mass in C minor, K427
Lucy Crowe (soprano)
Nardus Williams (soprano)
Jess Dandy (alto)
Benjamin Hulett (tenor)
Robert Davies (baritone)
Dunedin Consort
John Butt (harpsichord/conductor)

Begun to celebrate his marriage to Constanze, but left unfinished at the composer’s death, Mozart’s magnificent Mass in C minor can clearly be traced back to the choral writing of JS Bach and his son. Period-performance specialist John Butt and the award-winning Dunedin Consort unpack the Mass’s musical genealogy, with soloists including Lucy Crowe, Jess Dandy and Nardus Williams.

First broadcast:  6 August 2023      

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