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...Haydn: Missa Cellensis in C (Akademie Chorus of Vienna, the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, Hans Gillesberger conducting; the Haydn Society, 2 sides LP). Boston's Haydn Society continues its faithful task of preserving the Austrian master's works on records; this Mass (1782), known as the Mariazeller-Messe, is one of those works that makes the task well worth while. Performance and recording: good...
There were complaints yesterday that the speed of the allegros and the whispering of the pianissimos caused the words to be lost. For the most part, this is pedantry. The Missa Solmnis was a magnificent climax to Boston's musical season...
...performance of Beethoven's Missa Solemnis done in Boston these day's can't help but be compared to Serge Koussevitzky's interpretation of the same work, either as performed in Symphony Hall two years ago or as released on records. The version given by Charles Munch with the Boston Symphony, the Glee Club, and the Radcliffe Choral Society, yesterday afternoon was certainly different, and in many places better...
...Missa Solemnis is a monumental piece of music. It was written towards the end of Beethoven's life when he was way ahead of his age musically. Hence, there is nothing obvious about it. It contains little or no development of themes, and it passes over each musical idea so quickly that the unfamiliar are soon lost and unappreciative...
With ups and downs, Alfred Nash Patterson and his ambitious Polyphonic Choir of Christ Church have been presenting rarely sung sacred music. Such a group is much needed in a community which spends most of its efforts on Bach's B-Minor Mass and Beethoven's Missa Solemnis. They were particularly welcomed Monday night when they gave Mozart's Great Mass in C Minor in its first Boston performance in Trinity Church. The crow which filled every seat and stood in every open space made this pretty clear...