The Choir of Keble College, Oxford, is smaller than some of its English collegiate counterparts, and that, combined with the similarly modest forces of the orchestra Instruments of Time and Truth, works well in these works by Mozart, Michael Haydn, and Joseph Haydn. One might object that this is not quite an "Easter in Vienna" program; the music was mostly written for Salzburg, and that of Joseph Haydn, for Eszterháza. Of course, the music certainly could have been performed elsewhere. The centerpiece is a mass by Mozart, ...
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The Choir of Keble College, Oxford, is smaller than some of its English collegiate counterparts, and that, combined with the similarly modest forces of the orchestra Instruments of Time and Truth, works well in these works by Mozart, Michael Haydn, and Joseph Haydn. One might object that this is not quite an "Easter in Vienna" program; the music was mostly written for Salzburg, and that of Joseph Haydn, for Eszterháza. Of course, the music certainly could have been performed elsewhere. The centerpiece is a mass by Mozart, the Missa Brevis in C major, K. 258 ("Piccolomini"), presented in the fashion of an Easter service with chants and motets interspersed among the movements. The program concludes with an early, ambitious Joseph Haydn choral work, the Te Deum in C major, Hob. 23c:1. These are all sunny works in the galant style, easy on the ears, but annotator Joseph Fort suggests that one purpose of the program is to show the variety within this style, and here, director Paul Brough succeeds. The...
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