Re: Robert Levin new completion of Mozart's C Minor Mass

Note, My language checker put an invalid extra "h" without my
knowledge: It is "were the sketches", not "where the sketches"!!!

Now it is correct, sorry.


Juan I. Cahis <jiclbchSINBASURA@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Dear friends:
>
>I have just received the CD, conducted by Helmut Rilling on Haenssler.
>
>Levin used an "abridged" copy of the First Performance Parts, copied
>on 1802 by the Choirmaster, Pater Matthaeus Fischer, taking some extra
>information from it. Among the new sketches found, were the sketches
>for a "Dona nobis pacem", the end of the Mass, in the same package of
>the sketches to the unfinished Opera "La Oca del Cairo".
>
>So, from that Opera sketches, he extracts the "Crucifixus" too, a
>double choir fugue (not very suitable for a comic Opera, indeed). From
>"Davide Penitente", the logic choice, he extracts a tenor aria for "Et
>in Spiritum Sanctum" and a soprano aria for the "Agnus Dei".
>
>The short CD notes don't clarify the origin of two choirs, "Et
>resurrexit" and "Et unam sanctam-Et vitam venturi" from the Credo. I
>ordered a recording of La Oca del Cairo from Amazon to see if they
>came from there too. If some member of the group have a copy of a
>longer paper by Levin on the subject, I will be very grateful to have
>a copy, either physical or electronic.
>
>The result is very convincing, the additions are very similar to the
>original parts of this Mass, which I call it "The Coloratura Mass".
>
>The recording and performance is very good, although both sopranos
>could be a little better. It takes 77 minutes.
>
>Thanks
>Juan I. Cahis
>Santiago de Chile (South America)
>Note: Please forgive me for my bad English, I am trying to improve it!
Thanks
Juan I. Cahis
Santiago de Chile (South America)
Note: Please forgive me for my bad English, I am trying to improve it!
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