BaL 22.03.14 - Mozart's Coronation Mass

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

9.30am Building a Library
Live in the Radio 3 Southbank performance space Jeremy Summerly discusses with Andrew McGregor different recordings of Mozart's Coronation Mass - one of Mozart's most popular choral works - and makes a personal recommendation. And the stakes are higher as this is the first time that Building a Library has been done as a live discussion.






Available versions:

Wiener Sangerknaben, Chorus Viennesis, Vienna RSO, Bertrand de Billy (DVD)
Cor der vocapella & Sinfonieorchester Aachen, Marcus Bosch
Netherlands Chamber Choir, Orchestra of the 18th Century, Franz Bruggen (download)
Handel & Haydn Society, Harry Christophers
Choir of King’s College Cambridge, English Chamber Orchestra, Stephen Cleobury
John Aldis Choir LSO, Sir Colin Davis (download)
Concentus Musicus Wien, Arnold Schoenberg Chor, Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Wiener Singverein, BPO, Herbert von Karajan (2 versions)
Vienna Singverein, VPO, Herbert Von Karajan
Winchester Cathedral Choir, Academy of Ancient Music, Christopher Hogwood
Bavarian RSO & Chorus, Euge Jochum
Berlin RSO, Michail Jurowski
Bavarian Radio SO & Choris, Rafael Kubelik
Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Nicol Matt
RIAS-Kammerchor, BPO, James Levine (download)
Weiner Sangerknaben & Chorus Viennensis, Peter Marchik
Choir of St Hedwig’s Cathedral, BPO, Igor Markevich (download)
Elisabeth Brasseur Choir, Orchestre Lamoureux Paris, Igor Markevich
Schola Cantorum Oxford, ASMF, Sir Neville Marriner
St John’s College Cambridge, Andrew Nethsingha
Kolner Kammerchor, Collegium Cartesianum, Peter Neuman
Charivari Agreable & Tewksbury Schola Cantorum, Benjamin Nicholas
The English Concert & Chorus, Trevor Pinnock
Chorvereinigung St Augustin und Orchester, Andreas Pixner
Kantorei Stuttgart, Bach-Collegium Stuttgart, Helmuth Rilling
Staatskapelle Dresden, Rundfunkchor, Leipzig, Peter Schreier
Kolner RSO & Chorus, Gunter Wand
West German RSO & Chorus, Gunter Wand
Kosice Teachers’ Choir, Camerata Cassovia, Johannes Wildner

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Did anyone want high stakes?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Did anyone want high stakes?

Vlad the Impaler?

[Bryn]

Did anyone want high stakes?

Preferable to high steaks, any day.

[richardfinegold]

Did anyone want high stakes?

Those have recently become a specialty of the Cattle Ranchers in the State of Colorado, which has legalized recreational marijuana.
I have the Hogwood version, which was a filler for the Requiem. I think I've heard the Karajan versions which struck me as fairly inappropos.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Do you think the joint reviewers will accidentally disagree with one another, it being """""live""""?

[visualnickmos]

Colin Davis

[richardfinegold]

Do you think the joint reviewers will accidentally disagree with one another, it being """""live""""?

OK Alpie...'Joint reviewers'...'high stakes'... are you trying to elicit more pot inspired jokes?

Perhaps the joint reviewers could follow the Daytime TV Format here in the States and hit each other over the heads with chairs when their artistic opinions fail to concur...

[verismissimo]

I've only ever had Jochum from 1977 doing the Coronation Mass (with an A list of soloists - Moser, Hamari, Gedda and DFD). It's always struck me as murky in sound - both playing and recording, I suspect.

So I'm definitely in the market for something leaner.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

No, my concern is that when we have had conversation reviews in the past, there has been no real discussion, just enthusiastic agreement.

[BBMmk2]

Yes, as one member said, two blokes in a pub, having a pint of beer!! (Bit like that Two Ronnies sketch of two men in the pub!?!?!?) (I'll get me coat!! :) )

[mikealdren]

Does ANYONE prefer the discussion format? How do we get the message across that the programme's loyal listeners don't like this format. If reviewers want to chat about music, I'm more than happy. Just let them do it in their own time so we don't have eavesdrop.

It smacks of Grammophone's arrogant journalist editors who consistently ignored the readership for years before we finally seem to have won and got back our much loved format.

Mike

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Does ANYONE prefer the discussion format.....
It smacks of Grammophone's arrogant journalist editors who consistently ignored the readership for years before we finally seem to have won and got back our much loved format.

Mike

I'm wondering how a "live " discussion can work, if the script of the discussion hasn't already been written, along with appropriate musical excerpts.

Just imagine the two of them recommending totally different versions.

[richardfinegold]

No, my concern is that when we have had conversation reviews in the past, there has been no real discussion, just enthusiastic agreement.

It would seem that the best way to avoid that and serve the listeners would be to choose reviewers with different backgrounds. Perhaps one could be more of a traditionalist and one could more of an HIPP Orientation.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Just imagine the two of them recommending totally different versions.

Ah! Now that's an idea worth developing - in connection with Sport Relief (which always makes me think of a cricket box), perhaps? David Owen Norris in the red corner and Erica Jeal in the blue slug it out for the best recording of Sibelius' piano Music.


It'd still be better than the mutual enthusiasmfest of the "conversation" format!