Mozart: Great Mass in C minor (K. 427) — Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, 2018

Live concert filmed on Easter Sunday, 1 April 2018, in the main hall of Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw for the Sunday Morning Concert. The Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra and the Netherlands Radio Choir perform Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Great Mass in C minor, K. 427, an unfinished yet monumental work written in 1782-1783, in which the composer gives free rein to a sacred, theatrical ambition. Under the baton of Markus Stenz, soloists Sophie Harmsen and Lenneke Ruiten (sopranos), Attilio Glaser (tenor) and Morgan Pearse (bass) unfold the score’s great pages, from the solemn « Kyrie » to the virtuosic « Laudamus te » and the crystalline « Et incarnatus est ». The HD capture, served by the Concertgebouw’s legendary acoustics, conveys the choral and orchestral richness of this luxuriant mass. This filmed live performance is a reference for discovering sacred Mozart in one of the world’s finest halls, carried by a leading radio orchestra and choir, in a broad, luminous and deeply inhabited interpretation.