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The Quiristers and Choral Scholars of Winchester College

Ruth Holton (soprano)

Charles Brett (countertenor)

Andrew Tusa (tenor)

Henry Wickham (bass)

The Amadi Orchestra

Andrew Lumsden (organ)

directed by Julian Smith

 

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 About this recording
This recording was originally issued by Proudsound in 1991 to mark the bi-centenary of Mozart's death, and was highly acclaimed at the time:
  The Austrian Mozart bonanza outlined last month has received a modest but almost perfect English reply this month. In the best tradition of the unexpected, the small record company Proudsound has released a CD of Mozart’s Three Salzburg Masses (K192, 220, 275) from the Quiristers and Choral Scholars of Winchester College and a quartet of soloists, three of whom are young singers developing promising careers, with the excellent counter-tenor Charles Brett completing the team. Julian Smith directs the performances with a small ‘authentic’ band of well-known players. I am spellbound by the quality. Every strand of texture contributes its share to the whole with such luminosity as to make Mozart’s uplifting simplicity glow with love and joy. I do not expect in the grandest Mozart Bicentenary offering this year to discover a better tribute.

The Musical Times, January 1991

  

At the end of the year, it was selected by Paul Griffiths of The Times as one of the year's top ten classical records.
 
 Track listing

Missa Brevis in F, K. 192 (Little Credo Mass, 1774)
   Kyrie (Allegro)
   Gloria (Allegro)
   Credo (Allegro – Adagio – Allegro)
   Sanctus (Andante – Allegro)
   Benedictus (Andantino – Allegro)
   Agnus Dei (Adagio – Allegro Moderato)

Epistle Sonata in C, K. 328 (Allegro)

Missa Brevis in B♭, K. 275 (1777)
   Kyrie (Allegro)
   Gloria (Allegro)
   Credo (Allegro – Adagio – Allegro)
   Sanctus (Allegro Comodo – Più Allegro
   Benedictus (Comodo – Allegro – Più Allegro)
   Agnus Dei (Andante – Allegro)

Epistle Sonata in F, K. 224 (Allegro con spirito)

Motet Ave Verum Corpus, K. 618 (1791)

Missa Brevis in C, K. 220 (Sparrows’ Mass, 1776)
   Kyrie (Allegro)
   Gloria (Allegro)
   Credo (Allegro – Adagio – Allegro)
   Sanctus (Allegro Comodo – Più Allegro
   Benedictus (Comodo – Allegro – Più Allegro)
   Agnus Dei (Andante – Allegro)

 
 
   
 
Product Code: DRCD030

Price: £8.50

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