Mozart for Easter (Et incarnatus est)

 Happy Easter everyone! As usual, I share some music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. I shared his Et incarnatus est from his Great Mass in C Minor more than once, but it's just so fitting for today. Performed here by French soprano Julie Fuchs (Wolfie's favourite, because he finds her cute). And to accompany this post, a picture I took in Vienna. If you think it's not Easter-y enough, well, I think Mozart is always Easter-y enough, because it's his music I listen to at Easter and because he was the Christ of music.

Mozart for Easter

Happy Easter everyone! I will celebrate quietly, as I am back from York, but that doesn't mean that there will be no rejoicing in this household. As it is a tradition for me, I do Easter in music, specifically Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The Christ of music. I always listen to some of the Great Mass in C Minor . Here's a bit of it, sung by Lisette Oropesa, one of my favourite.

Mozart for Good Friday

It is becoming a tradition for Good Friday (and also Easter) on this blog to put something of Mozart. His music makes most of my Easter playlist. I have shared the Kyrie from his Great Mass in C Minor time and again, but it fits this day so well, I have to do it again. Here it is sung by French soprano Julie Fuchs, who makes her débuts on Vraie Fiction (ha, ha!). She is also really cool as a person, check her on social media, she reallly is fun. Anywya, now onto more solemn matters, enjoy this great piece of music.

Mozart for Easter

Happy Easter everyone. I thought I would start the day by sharing a bit more of the Great Mass in C Minor by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Sung here by still young Swiss soprano Regula Mühlemann. I recently discovered her and I am very impressed by her voice. I am a Godless heathen, so it may seem ironic that I upload here Et incarnatus est, but you can't go wrong with Mozart.

Kyrie for Good Friday

For Good Friday, I thought I would put some circumstancial music. To be precise, the Kyrie from the Great Mass in C Minor by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Fitting music, by a fitting composer with a fitting name ("Amadeus"). Come Easter, I always listen to Mozart, sacred or not, but this mass is the best to listen to I think. Sang beautifully here by Swedish soprano Miah Persson. I challenge you not to feel shivers alll over your body.

Un peu de Mozart (et du Petit Ménestrel)

Je sais, je sais, nous ne sommes pas dimanche, alors je suis donc un jour trop tôt pour télécharger de la musique dominicale. Cela dit, c'est le soir ici, alors mon lectorat aura ça pour demain. Et puis Mozart, c'est bon tous les jours, même si c'est pas tous les jours dimanche. J'ai récemment demandé à mon père de m'envoyer des photos tirées de l'album de Mozart du Petit Ménestrel (sa vie, son oeuvre, racontée par Gérard Philipe). Il m'en a envoyé quelques unes, Comme il y avait un prêtre (l'archevêque de Salzbourg?) sur ce dessin, j'ai pensé qu'il fallait que je télécharge la Grande Messe en Ut Mineur, enfin son Kyrie, chanté ici par Natalie Dessay. J'avais téléchargé le Kyrie avant, mais ça fait déjà cinq ans.

J'ai déjà blogué sur les albums du Petit Ménestrel, plus précisément sur celui de Mozart ici. La collection m'a fait découvrir bien des grands compositeurs et m'a donné un début d'éducation musicale. J'ai donc une affection toute nostalgique pour eux, même si parfois le récit avait des tons particulièrement moralisateurs.

Mozart to commemorate Mozart

As Mozart's Girl reminded me today (I need her to remind me as I am rubbish with remembering dates), it is the 220th anniversary of Mozart's death. As I commented on her own post, it is fitting that he died in December, as he became as a composer a Christ-like figure (and to me a much worthier Christ than Jesus, but that is for another post), with the fitting middle name of Amadeus. Wolfgang was also fitting enough, has he had something of the wildness of the animal. He died at 35, which will be my age next year. I think how little I have done so far in my life and on how much he did. He composed the greatest music, my favourite opera (maybe the greatest opera ever), he did all this and he never reached 40.

So how do one commemorate Mozart? By listening to Mozart of course. Or by singing it, which I might do tonight. I decided to put here his Kyrie from his Great Mass in C Minor (which incidentally I already put on this blog years ago) I thought the Requiem would have been too obvious.That said, I will place here the version used in the soundtrack of Amadeus. I may never sing the role of Don Giovanni on stage, but I do hope that I will play the character Salieri one day.

A little bit of Mozart

I spent all yesterday baking the catastrophy cake, listening to Mozart. It was pure bliss (Mozart AND the cake). As I haven't written much today, here's the Kyrie of the Great Mass in C Minor (and as I said before, we can find treasures on youtube):