Leopold Mozart: Missa Solemnis: - Leopold Mozart [CD]

2019 is the anniversary of Leopold that Aparté celebrate with a gorgeous recording of his 'Missa Solemnis'. Alessandro de Marchi, who ran the Innsbruck Festival of Early Music right after René Jacobs, conducts the beautiful Bayerische Kammerphilharmonie from Augsburg, where Leopold was born. By paying homage to the father, the disc puts an end to the eternal inequality of treatment, saving the father from collective oblivion and worldwide overshadowing by the child prodigy. For a long time, the 'Missa Solemnis' haunted Wolfgang's catalogue but we now know for sure that it's Leopold's. Committed to the Leopold legacy owing to his native city of Augsburg, the Bayerische Kammerphilharmonie - together with the Das Vokalprojekt choir - approach this work afresh. They find in Alessandro de Marchi an ally and passionate champion of unknown works, who knows how to highlight the Neapolitan subtleties from the strict contrapuntal style of this mass. For those who are desperately rummaging the secondhand market to find the only out of print recording of the 'Missa' from 1982, an invaluable record is now available.

Disc 1
1. Kyrie Eleison (Leopold Mozart) - Various Performers
2. Gloria in Excelsis Deo (Leopold Mozart) - Various Performers
3. Laudamus Te (Leopold Mozart) - Various Performers
4. Gratias Agimus Tibi (Leopold Mozart) - Various Performers
5. Quoniam Tu Solus Sanctus (Leopold Mozart) - Various Performers
6. Cum Sancto Spiritu (Leopold Mozart) - Various Performers
7. Credo in Unum Deum (Leopold Mozart) - Various Performers
8. Et in Unum Dominum (Leopold Mozart) - Various Performers
9. Et Incarnatus Est (Leopold Mozart) - Various Performers
10. Crucifixus (Leopold Mozart) - Various Performers
11. Et Resurrexit (Leopold Mozart) - Various Performers
12. Et Vitam Venturi Saeculi (Leopold Mozart) - Various Performers
13. Sanctus (Leopold Mozart) - Various Performers
14. Benedictus (Leopold Mozart) - Various Performers
15. Hosanna (Leopold Mozart) - Various Performers
16. Agnus Dei (Leopold Mozart) - Various Performers
17. Dona Nobis Pacem (Leopold Mozart) - Various Performers