Work Summary
Performers
Matthew Rose (Bass)- Susan Gritton (Soprano)
- Pamela Stephen (Mezzo Soprano)
- James Gilchrist (Tenor)
- Mark Padmore (Tenor)
Conductor
Ensemble
Composer
Remarks:
Schubert's final mass and most ambitious setting was composed during the summer of 1828, only months before his death. Much more than his previous efforts in the genre, it is a choral mass, relegating the vocal soloists to three brief episodes to allow for large chorus passages, and provides an extremely active role for the orchestra. Today, the Mass in E Flat is increasingly acknowledged as an individual masterpiece; powerful and disquieting, more monumental than the fifth, but likewise seeking to reconcile liturgical grandeur with Schubert's own subjective romantic feeling, whilst still influenced by Haydn, Beethoven and Bach. Richard Hickox has long wanted to record this powerful work. This recording follows the successful concert at the 2007 BBC Proms.Reviews
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Schubert, Franz : Mass for soloists, chorus & orchestra in E flat major, D. 950
- Performers: Matthew Rose (Bass); Susan Gritton (Soprano); Pamela Stephen (Mezzo Soprano); James Gilchrist (Tenor); Mark Padmore (Tenor)
- Conductor: Richard Hickox
- Ensemble: Collegium Musicum 90
- Notes: St Jude-on-the-Hill, Hampstead Garden Suburb, London, England (07/26/2007-07/27/2007)
- Running Time: 51 min. 32 sec.
- Period Time: Romantic
- Form: Choral
- Written: 1828
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