WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART

Mozart: Mass in C minor, KV 427 – Gillian Keith, Tove Dahlberg, Thomas Cooley, Nathan Berg, Handel and Haydn Society, Harry Christophers

This brand new recording of Mozart’s Mass in C minor features Harry Christophers in his role as Artistic Director and conductor of the Handel and Haydn Society, America’s oldest continuously performing orchestra and chorus.

In September 2008 Harry Christophers was appointed Artistic Director of Boston’s internationally acclaimed Handel and Haydn Society. Founded in 1815, the Society premiered key works by Handel, Bach, and Haydn in America, has won a Grammy Award and also has a place in the American Classical Music Hall of Fame. Christophers has worked with the Society since 2006 and his inaugural concert as Artistic Director took place in December 2009 with Handel’s Messiah.

Mozart’s Mass in C minor needs little introduction: one of the best-known and most widely performed of the mass settings by Mozart, it is generally considered to be one of his greatest works and, as such, is often referred to as the ‘Great Mass’. It is a remarkable union of musical vision and religious text and draws on the skill for drama that made the operatic works of Mozart such a phenomenal success.