Great Mass- Kyrie
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I rather despise them as well. Though it's grown more into indifference. I'd rather not play into the game of deciding whether I "should" feel hope or be a pessimist. In any case, Mozart's music has no effect over that. I'll see it in a different light each time I listen to it again, anyway.
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I wouldn't say it's an introduction at all. It's purpose is intertwined with the Christe as much as the trinity itself is (supposedly) intertwined...
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I mock Mormon missioners and Witnesses of Jehova, I despise the self-help drivel and the groundless hope that Ophra-like psychologists and religious fanatics alike claim we should feel. And yet, if Mozart managed to find this beauty, if this music is something real, then perhaps we are entitled to feel hope, after all. Perhaps there is more in life than fear and disappointment. Perhaps there is a merciful god, somewhere.
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The first Kyrie is nothing but an introduction, something like hear, hear! which heralds the core of the piece, the Christe. And then there the gates open, and the soprano enters, and words fail.
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It doesn`t really matter what I am thinking at the moment, or what I am going through: working problems, boredom, whatever it is. This shocking tune simply gives me peace: overwhelming, blissful, amazing peace. I was 18 when I first heard it, and remember that I could hardly breathe for the time it lasted, that the joy was so unbearable I almost cried.
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Good recording.
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This is much better than Wagner, and he'd agree with me xD
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Deeply STIRRING!!! ;-) I have trouble getting Wagner's Die Walküre out of my head sometimes. ;-)
There are some music pieces which are just powerful: they flow you away like a flood, like the waves of a furious sea.
The Great Mass kyrie is one of these, but I don`t feel it like a storm or a gale but instead like the quiet, benevolent, almost indifferent might of a huge beast, like the unstoppable dragging of a glacier along the valley.
horsthoff 3 years ago
It's a pretty clear representation of God the old testament Father. It's interesting in this Mass how it varies between being clearly religious to points that are really ambiguous, making you wonder if he might have really meant something else the entire time. heh.
sonata1992 3 years ago