This recording was made live at Symphony Hall, Boston, a venue considered one of the finest concert halls in the world, known for its superb acoustics.
Interpretation
The Handel and Haydn Society, founded in 1815, is the oldest continuously performing arts organization in the United States and is a leader in Historically Informed Performance.
Composer Biography
Mozart composed only two Masses in the last ten years of his life, neither of which he completed, after moving from Salzburg to Vienna.
Compositional Technique
The Mass in C minor, with its powerful counterpoint and stirring Baroque textures, is Mozart's response to his encounter with the music of Bach and Handel.
Performer Biography
Harry Christophers, the Artistic Director of the Handel and Haydn Society, is also the founder and conductor of The Sixteen and instituted the Choral Pilgrimage, a national tour of British cathedrals.
Composition History
Mozart began work on the Mass in C minor towards the end of 1782, without a commission, as a promise related to his marriage to Constanze Weber and the prospective arrival of their first child.
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