Haydn – Nelson Mass
No. 11 Missa in angustiis, "Nelson Messe", D Minor, SATB, Chorus, Organ, 1801
(Mass: Service in commemoration of Christ's Last Supper, especially as embodied in the Catholic tradition.)
The mass was the most important musical product of western Europe in the 15th and 16th centuries – that to which composers seem to have brought special care in achieving technical feats and paying homage to colleagues and patrons. Later times had other genres, even within the sphere of church music, and the mass lost its artistic prestige. Even so, masses have gone on being written, whether as liturgical settings in the old way, as more personal documents of faith and doubt, praise and prayer, or as studies in style.
Bibliography: The Penguin Companion to Classical Music - Paul Griffiths
The Nelson Mass plus two organ pieces by Albinoni and Wilson, featuring
The Johannesburg Bach Choir, and soloists Talita Strydom (Soprano), Aukse Trinkunas (Contralto), Javan Cloete (Tenor) and
Hendré van Zyl (Bass)
Conductor: Matthew Vlok
Organist: Dianne Coutts
Sunday, 15 November 2009, 15:00
St. Martins-in-the-veld, Rosebank, Johannesburg
Tickets: R80.00
Bookings: 011 682 2776
