July Orchestral Eucharists

06 July 2010

We celebrate the genius of Mozart’s sacred music in a sequence of Sunday Eucharists. Entry is free and all are welcome.

 

Sunday 4 July, 11am
Orchestral Eucharist - Celebrating Mozart 2010 I
Missa solemnis in C (K. 337)
with the City of London Sinfonia conducted by Andrew Carwood
The first in the annual series of orchestral Eucharists, which celebrate the genius of Mozart's sacred music featuring the Cathedral Choir and one ofLondon's leading orchestras.

Sunday 11 July, 11am
Orchestral Eucharist - Celebrating Mozart 2010 II
Missa in C (Orgel-solo Messe) (K.259)
with the City of London Sinfonia conducted by Andrew Carwood
This charming setting derives it nickname from the Benedictusand features one of the shortest settings of the Credo at just 84 bars in length.

Sunday 18 July, 11am
Orchestral Eucharist - Celebrating Mozart 2010 III
Missa in C (Coronation Mass) (K.317)
with the City of London Sinfonia conducted by Andrew Carwood
One of Mozart's best-loved Salzburg compositions, legend has it that the Coronation Mass was written to commemorate the crowning of the miraculous image of the Virgin in the pilgrimage church of Maria Plain near Salzburg.

Sunday 25 July, 11am
Orchestral Eucharist - Celebrating Mozart 2010 IV
‘Great’ Mass in C minor (K. 427)
with the Cathedral Consort & the City of London Sinfonia conducted by Andrew Carwood
We conclude the series with one of Mozart's masterpieces which was strangely never completed. The Mass in C minor was never produced in response to a commission and no one really knows what prompted him to begin it in the first place. However Mozart was particularly fond of this work and later reused the Kyrie and Gloria in the cantata 'Davidde Penitente' (K. 469).