As a little comparison to Wednesday’s post, here’s the introductory Kyrie movement from Mozart’s Great Mass in C minor. Written a full 233 years ago, this is a popular mass on choral and orchestral programs around the world, year after year. It’s Mozart, so there’s literally nothing I can add to the interwebz info-wise, other than I’ve been privileged enough to sing this beautiful work of art with two wonderful choirs. As I’ve mentioned before, nothing compares to the physical, emotional, spiritual, and universal energetic vibration created by 100+ voices raised in song, and well-trained classical voices at that. This recording features the Hungarian Radio Choir and Nicolaus Esterhazy Sinfonia, conducted by Michael Halasz, and this movement features soprano Viktoria Loukianetz. With love, light, and song… ~Melissa~
N.B. While every other movement of mass text is Latin, the opening movement always uses the Greek Kyrie eleison Christe eleison Kyrie eleison (Lord have mercy, Christ have mercy, Lord have mercy).