FULL Messe Nr.2 (Bruckner) Brixen 2024 Kammerchor Stuttgart
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Messe Nr.2
- Composer: Bruckner Anton
- Libretto: traditional
- Venue & Opera Company: Dom zu Brixen, Südtirol, Italy
- Recorded: October 12, 2024
- Type: Concert Live
- Singers:
- Conductor: Frieder Bernius
- Orchestra: Bläser der Klassischen Philharmonie Stuttgart
- Chorus: Kammerchor Stuttgart
- Stage Director:
- Costume Designer:
Information about the Recording
- Published by: Südtirol in concert
- Date Published: 2025
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: nosubs
- Video Recording from: YouTube FULL VIDEO
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
The Mass No. 2 in E minor , WAB 27, is a setting of the Mass for eight-part mixed choir and fifteen wind instruments , which Anton Bruckner composed in 1866.
The mass is strongly based on early church music tradition, with themes strongly influenced by Gregorian chant . The piece is composed for an eight-part mixed choir (SSAATTBB) and 15 wind instruments in the following instrumentation: 2 oboes , 2 clarinets , 2 bassoons , 4 horns , 2 trumpets , and 3 trombones .
The “Kyrie” consists almost entirely of eight-part singing. The “Gloria” ends with a fugue, as in Bruckner’s other masses. In the Sanctus, Bruckner uses a theme from Palestrina’s Missa Brevis . Compared with the other masses, it is the most demanding of his great choral works. Large sections are to be sung a cappella , and Bruckner demands many slow, extremely strenuous passages from the singing voices. The Sanctus in particular, which begins a cappella and which Bruckner wanted to be particularly slow, can drop in pitch slightly, which is painfully noticeable when the wind instruments enter (bar 26). For this reason, the first edition included wind instruments throughout, which is still often used as a makeshift solution today.
As with the Missa solemnis and the Mass in D minor , but unlike the Mass in F minor , the intonations of the “Gloria” and the “Credo” – “Gloria in excelsis Deo” and “Credo in unum Deum” – which in the Catholic Mass tradition are spoken by the priest and sung in one of the Gregorian modes, respectively, are not co-composed. The fact that Bruckner did not compose both movements suggests that the D minor and E minor Masses were primarily intended for liturgical use and that Bruckner therefore did not need to compose the introductory movements of the Gloria and Credo. However, in a concert performance of the Mass or a recording, both movements must be sung, for example by one of the singers in the choir or by a group of singers.
Quoted from Wikipedia