Salzburg Festival 2012: Ouverture Spirituelle - Claudio Abbado

About this event

After a gap of ten years, Claudio Abbado takes to the rostrum again to conduct a new special facet of the Salzburg Festival of Sacred Music, the Ouverture Spirituelle. The Italian maestro conducts the Orchestra Mozart of Bologna, an ensemble specially dedicated to performing the work of Mozart.

The programme includes two masses: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s 1768 Mass in C minor K. 139, better known as the Waisenhausmesse (Orphanage Mass), and Franz Schubert’s Mass in E flat major D. 950 of 1828.

The two works combine to make a touching and intimate experience, performed by the renowned soprano Rachel Harnisch and the tenors Javier Camarena and Paolo Fanale. The music is “fresh, with a rapid tempo and solemn”, according to the Kleine Zeitung, while the Münchner Merkur makes special mention of the “impressive level of detail”. The New York Times meanwhile thought that the concert was clearly the “high point of the Ouverture Spirituelle”.

Featuring

Conductor: Claudio Abbado

Orchestra: Orchestra Mozart

Chorus: Arnold Schoenberg Chor

Chorus Master: Erwin Ortner

Soprano: Rachel Harnisch

Soprano: Roberta Invernizzi

Alto: Sara Mingardo

Tenor: Javier Camarena

Tenor: Paolo Fanale

Bass: Alex Esposito

Repertoire

1. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Missa solemnis in C minor KV 139 “Waisenhaus-Messe”

2. Franz Schubert: Mass No. 6 in E flat major D 950

Duration: approx. 105 minutes.

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