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Music : Biber: Missa Salisburgenis /Musica Antiqua Koln * Goebel * Gabrieli Consort & Players * McCreeshIn association with Amazon.comby: Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber, Pater Ignatius, Bartholomaus Riedl, Gabrieli Consort and Players, Musica Antiqua Koln, Paul McCreesh, Reinhard Goebel  Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: Audio CDEAN: 0028945761121 Label: Archiv Produktion Manufacturer: Archiv Produktion Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Archiv Produktion Release Date: November 09, 1999 Studio: Archiv Produktion Sales Rank: 142128 MPN: 457611 Disc 1: Related Items:
Editorial Review: Amazon.com: The Missa Salisburgensis for 53 parts in eight separate choirs, often called "the Mahler 8th of the baroque," is by far the most grandiose work composed before the 18th century. Written (by an unnamed composer generally presumed to be Biber) for the 1,100th anniversary of the Archdiocese of Salzburg, it has extravagant scoring reflecting that city's enormous self-regard. This Mass is rarely performed or recorded, and probably not just because of logistical and financial constraints--the work can often seem tedious and overblown. The large number of parts and the reverberant acoustic of Salzburg Cathedral allowed for very little harmonic variety (virtually the entire Mass is in C major) or virtuoso fireworks; the music can make its effects only through variety of instrumental color and sheer massive sound. It is very much to the credit of Paul McCreesh, Reinhard Goebel, and their musicians that the Missa Salisburgensis sounds so engaging here: the grandeur is leavened with plenty of rhythmic snap, and some lighter moments sound tender and almost delicate. Unusually for McCreesh, there are no chants, prayers, or other trappings of a liturgical reconstruction; there are, however, three sumptuous instrumental sonatas and a motet included with the Mass. This may not be the most profound music of the 17th century, but it is surely among the most jubilant. --Matthew Westphal Average Rating:
 Rating: - The Mass as OccasionFor reasons unknown I was not familiar with Biber and his work in the late Baroque, so when a local FM announcer, without warning, played the Gloria from this mass I was completely gob-smacked. Spectacular! Written as it was [in 1682] to celebrate the opening of the new Salzberg cathedral, and coincidently the 1100th aniversary of the conversion to Christianity of that city, it is a work on a giant scale. This partially explains the use of two major period music groups ot complete ... Read More Rating:  - No technological weaknesses!Biber: Missa Salisburgenis /Musica Antiqua Koln * Goebel * Gabrieli Consort & Players * McCreesh The recording is acoustically very good, what it does show is that it is almost impossible to record truthfully a work of THAT complexity, well, perhaps a multi-channell system would be fine. I do agree with one of the previous reviewers, when I listen on my (hi-end) headphones the sound is far more clear than on the stereo system: the acoustics of the room obscures the sound. Simply, this most ... Read More Rating: - Majestic Music, Too Grand for a CDSalzburg has had a bad rap since the apotheosis of Mozart. He despised the place as a stiff-necked provincial backwater. A generation earlier, Salzburg was surely one of the greatest musical scenes of all time, with extravagant resources available to its episcopal court composers. Heinrich Biber has emerged very recently as everybody's favorite rediscovered Baroque master. Twenty years ago, there were just a couple of LPs of his violin sonatas, but now there are pages of listings of his choral as well ... Read More Rating: - An impressive recordingThis is a much better recording than some of the other reviewers have indicated. It is a difficult work to perform and some of the scoring is a little vague - the "hautbois", for instance, may or may not have been oboes. Perhaps Deutscher Schalmeien were required? Paul McCreesh employs female sopranos and male altos - the earlier Collegium Aureum recording used boys. The countertenors do sound stronger and don't seem to run out of breath, but the female sopranos don't blend as well with the ... Read More Rating: - get an earful :DI've got all of McCreesh's/Gabrieli Consort's cds & I would say that this is one of my favourites. (the other is Music for the Duke of Lerma) Yes, after the first track I have to turn my stereo down, but other than that I don't have a problem with this recording. I think it goes from quiet to loud so dramatically because one moment only a couple singers will be singing & then suddenly... all in! The playing is characteristically excellent, as I would expect from McCreesh & Goebel (& some ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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