Imposing recordings of the ‘Coronation Mass’ and the ‘Vespers’ (which includes the famous ‘Laudate dominum’) plus Erna Spoorenberg, radiant in the ‘Exsultate, jubilate’.
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
Mass in C major, KV 317 ‘Coronation Mass’
Ileana Cotrubas
Helen Watts
Robert Tear
John Shirley-Quirk
Schola Cantorum of Oxford
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields
Neville Marriner
Vesperae solennes de confessore, KV 339
Felicity Palmer
Margaret Cable
Philip Langridge
Stephen Roberts
Choir of St. John’s College, Cambridge
Wren Orchestra
George Guest
Exsultate, jubilate, KV 165
Erna Spoorenberg
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields
Neville Marriner
Producers: Michael Bremner (Coronation Mass, Exsultate); Chris Hazell (Vespers)
Dates: 1966 (Exsultate), 1971 (Coronation Mass), 1979 (Vespers)