Mozart - The Great Mass. A Ballet by Uwe Scholz | with music from György Kurtág & Arvo Pärt

From the Opera in Leipzig:
The Gewandhausorchester Leipzig and the Choir of the Leipzig Opera play "The Great Mass" by W. A. Mozart. A Ballet by Uwe Scholz with Leipzig Ballet.

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"The Great Mass" - W. A. Mozart

Uwe Scholz, ballet director in Leipzig, was hailed as one of the most brilliant choreographic minds of his generation when he died in November 2004 at the early age of 45. His ballet “The Great Mass” is one of the most impressive works of this important neoclassical Choreographer - a requiem, a choreographic revelation and certainly his grand legacy to the Leipzig ballet. The full length Choreography, here recorded at the Leipzig Opera in a performance in June 2005, takes its name from Mozart's famous unfinished Mass in C minor. It absorbs the structure of the liturgy of the mass and adds other works by Mozart as well as passages of Gregorian chant, and sequences from contemporary music by György Kurtág, Thomas Jahn and Arvo Pärt and readings of poems by Paul Celan. Internationally famous soloists from the Leipzig Ballet, among them Kiyoko Kimura, Christoph Böhm and Oksana Kulchytska, take on the leading roles and the staging proves the ensemble to be one of the best ballet companies worldwide.


Conductor: Balázs Kocsár
Chorus Master: Stefan Bilz
Ballet by Uwe Scholz


Solists:

Eunyee You - soprano
Marie-Claude Chappuis - soprano
Werner Güra - tenor
Friedemann Röhlig - bass


Music:

00:00 Intro
01:40 Anonymus - Gregorian Chant: For the Feast of St Thomas of Canterbury: Introitus (Gaudeamus omnes)
05:30 Mozart - The Great Mass in C minor, K.427 Kyrie (Kyrie eleison)
13:12 Mozart - The Great Mass in C minor, K.427 Gloria (Gloria in excelsis)
15:35 Mozart - The Great Mass in C minor, K.427 Gloria (Laudamus te)
20:36 Mozart - The Great Mass in C minor, K.427 Gloria (Gratias)
22:04 Mozart - The Great Mass in C minor, K.427 Gloria (Domine)
24:49 Mozart - The Great Mass in C minor, K.427 Gloria (Qui tollis)
31:30 Mozart - The Great Mass in C minor, K.427 Gloria (Quoniam)
35:40 Mozart - Great Mass in C minor, K.427 Gloria (Jesu Christe / Cum Sancto Spiritu)
40:17 Thomas Jahn - Orte und Zeiten - tempi e luoghi: "Zeit und Zeiten"
43:26 György Kurtág - "From Játékok (Games) and Bach Transcriptions: Flowers We Are, Mere Flowers..."
43:59 György Kurtág - "From Játékok (Games) and Bach Transcriptions: J.S. Bach: Aus tiefer Not schrei ich zu dir (BWV 687)"
49:23 György Kurtág - "From Játékok (Games) and Bach Transcriptions: Play with Overtones"
50:14 György Kurtág - "From Játékok (Games) and Bach Transcriptions: ... and once more: Flowers We Are ..."
50:53 György Kurtág - "From Játékok (Games) and Bach Transcriptions: Beating - Quarrelling"
51:56 György Kurtág - "From Játékok (Games) and Bach Transcriptions: J.S. Bach: Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit (BWV 106)"
54:17 György Kurtág - "From Játékok (Games) and Bach Transcriptions: Furious Chorale"
55:18 György Kurtág - "From Játékok (Games) and Bach Transcriptions: Palm Stroke"
55:42 György Kurtág - "From Játékok (Games) and Bach Transcriptions: Aus der Ferne"
59:30 Mozart - Adagio and Fugue in C minor, K. 546
01:10:33 Anonymus - Gregorian Chant: For the Feast of St Thomas of Canterbury: Credo (Credo in unum Deum)
01:11:10 Mozart - Great Mass in C minor, K.427: Credo (Credo in unum Deum)
01:14:50 Mozart - Great Mass in C minor, K.427: Credo (Et incarnatus est)
01:23:50 Arvo Pärt - Credo
01:36:30 Mozart - Ave verum corpus, KV 618
01:42:20 Mozart - Great Mass in C minor, K.427: Sanctus (Sanctus/Osanna)
01:46:10 Mozart - Great Mass in C minor, K.427: Benedictus (Benedictus qui venit / Osanna)
01:51:28 Thomas Jahn - Orte und Zeiten - tempi e luoghi: "Viele Länder durchfuhr ich"
01: 56:25 Mozart - Great Mass in C minor, K.427: Agnus Dei


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2005, Choir of the Leipzig Opera | Gewandhausorchester Leipzig | Ballet Leipzig | Balázs Kocsár | Uwe Scholz