Haydn: Missa Cellensis
Johanna Winkel (soprano), Benjamin Bruns (tenor), Sophie Harmsen (alto), Wolf Matthias Friedrich (bass), RIAS Kammerchor, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Justin Doyle
Awards:
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2020, Choral & Song Choice
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee - Conductor of the Year
Altogether, there is much to discover in this little-known work, and the conductor Justin Doyle with his talented team of soloists and the RIAS Chamber Choice and Berlin Akademie für Alte Musik...
Haydn: Missa Cellensis
Johanna Winkel (soprano), Benjamin Bruns (tenor), Sophie Harmsen (alto), Wolf Matthias Friedrich (bass), RIAS Kammerchor, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Justin Doyle
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Awards:
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2020, Choral & Song Choice
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee - Conductor of the Year
Altogether, there is much to discover in this little-known work, and the conductor Justin Doyle with his talented team of soloists and the RIAS Chamber Choice and Berlin Akademie für Alte Musik...
About
It was when the young Haydn was appointed Kapellmeister to Prince Nikolaus Esterházy that he composed his Missa Cellensis, a work of vast proportions, whose popularity is demonstrated by the many surviving copies.
In this interpretation full of vivid contrasts, the RIAS Kammerchor and the Akademie für Alte Musik confirm their extraordinary ability to reveal every subtlety of a composition that possesses almost operatic energy.
Contents and tracklist
- Johanna Winkel (soprano), Benjamin Bruns (tenor), Sophie Harmsen (alto), Wolf Matthias Friedrich (bass)
- RIAS Kammerchor, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin
- Justin Doyle
Awards and reviews
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BBC Music MagazineFebruary 2020Choral & Song Choice
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Opus Klassik Awards2020Nominee - Conductor of the Year
February 2020
Altogether, there is much to discover in this little-known work, and the conductor Justin Doyle with his talented team of soloists and the RIAS Chamber Choice and Berlin Akademie für Alte Musik do it proud. Recommended.
March 2020
Justin Doyle and his accomplished period forces give a performance to rival the excellent version from Richard Hickox’s Collegium Musicum 90. The choral singing is both incisive and mellifluous; tempos, balancing dignity and exuberance, are aptly chosen; and rhythms are always vital...Best [of the soloists] is soprano Johanna Winkel, who sings her two arias with grace and an instrumental purity of timbre.
15th December 2019
The chamber choir of German broadcaster RIAS has kept up with the times and produces beautifully cool, clean-edged textures, which Doyle moulds with skill.
