Schubert: Mass in E flat major, D950 Choir Orchestral & Concertos Chaconne

Schubert: Mass in E flat major, D950

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Schubert: Mass in E flat major, D950

Running Time: 52:50

CD UPC: 0095115075029

Release Date: March 2008
Originally recorded in July 2007

Composer (1797-1828)
Franz Schubert

Solo soprano
Susan Gritton

Mezzo Voice mezzo-soprano
Pamela Helen Stephen

Tenor Voice tenor
Mark Padmore

Tenor Voice tenor
James Gilchrist

Bass Voice bass
Matthew Rose

Orchestra
Collegium Musicum 90

Conductor
Richard Hickox

Venue
St Jude on the Hill, Hampstead

Producer
Rachel Smith

Engineer
Ralph Couzens

Engineer (Assistant)
Jonathan Cooper

Genre:
Choir
Orchestral & Concertos

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FRANZ SCHUBERT

(1797-1828)

Mass in E flat major, D950

52:54

in Es-Dur - en mi bémol majeur

Kyrie

5:50

Gloria. 'Gloria in excelsis Deo' -

3:28

'Domine Deus' -

5:03

'Cum Sancto Spiritu'

4:03

III

Credo. 'Credo in unum Deum' -

2:41

'Et incarnatus est' -

6:36

'Et resurrexit'

6:13

Sanctus

3:22

Benedictus

5:52

10.

Agnus Dei

9:42

Solo: Susan Gritton soprano

Orchestra: Collegium Musicum 90

Conductor: Richard Hickox

26 & 27 July 2007

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Reviews

the powerful new Hickox recording of this late Schubert masterpiece, clean as a whistle, superbly recorded, and with an excellent note by the scholar Brian Newbould, is now the one to have.

International Record Review

Turn to Hickox and you’ll hear how this heavenly music should sound, with the three soloists singing with pure tone and wondering tenderness. Hickox scores, too, with his extra choral firepower at climaxes, and the wonderfully pungent sonorities of Collegium Musicum 90, whether in the dry, fearful rattle of period timpani in the Credo, the lovely ’woody’ oboe and clarinet in the Et incarnates est of the steely, scything trumpets in the Agnus Dei.

Gramophone

Its originality is remarkable, and it is good to welcome a revelatory performance and recording, in which every detail of Schubert’s often complex structures come through with clear, natural balance; the important timpani part is unusually well realised.Both choir and orchestra shine, relishing the drama that is so often lacking in Schubert’s stage works and, under Hickox’s perceptive and enthusiastic direction, also appreciating to the full the many reflective passages.

Early Music Review

Period-instrument colour, warm-toned choral singing and Hickox’s imaginative, heartfelt vision help define this performance of Schubert’s late masterpiece as a benchmark recording.

Classic FM Magazine

This new recording fills a gap in the market – few period bands have tackled this late, great work, and it comes up gleaming in the care of Collegium Musicum 90 under Richard Hickox’s direction… Hickox’s soloists are superb too – their ‘et Incarnatus est’ ensemble is sublime in its creamy lyricism, and the singers do not compete with each other for the limelight.

BBC Music Magazine

Richard Hickox directs his crack period forces in a string, sympathetic performance, glowingly recorded The chorus blaze with white hot intensity in Schubet’s many climaxes, while the soloists sing with tenderness and grace in the Benedictus and the ravishing ’Et incarnatus est’.

The Telegraph

Hickox’s Collegium Musicum 90 uses period instruments (or copies thereof), but many would not notice the difference because Hickox does not use historical instruments as a license to exceed the speed limit or conduct without feeling.

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