Mozart's Great Mass in C Minor- Kyrie

This piece was written to be performed during the traditional Mass. Because the structure of the Ordinary of the Mass survived the Second Vatican Council, this piece may be performed at non-Latin Masses as well.

The Ordinary of the Mass is as follows:

1. Kyrie - "Lord have mercy, Christ have mercy, Lord have mercy."
2. Gloria - "Glory to God in the Highest..."
3. Credo - "We believe in one God..."
4. Sanctus - "Holy, Holy, Holy Lord, God of power and might..."
5. Benedictus - "Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord..."
6. Agnus Dei - "Lamb of God, you take away the sins of the world

Mozart's Mass has been given the name "Great Mass" because, more so than any other work of the eighteenth century, it summarizes everything that had happened in religious music until its composition in 1782-1783.

John Eliot Gardiner conducts the English Baroque Soloists and the Monteverdi Choir in the Kyrie of Mozart's Mass in C Minor, K.427.

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[sgjr03]

@kourosh89 You made me laugh! Not that I have anything against your musical preferences. However, 200 years from now I am certain that the name Mozart will still be around. (As it has been around for the past 250 years, already!) Not sure I can say the same about 'Lil Wayne'. But, hey, at least you got 'some' culture by clicking on this clip. Bravo!

[patogiannis49]

I'm a lead guitarist in a rock band and I have to say, this is the greatest piece of music I've ever heard. If this music doesn't move you, you don't know what music is. 

[TheUltraman777]

patogiannis..i AGREE WITH YOU,MOZART WAS EITHER TOUCHED BY GOD OR THE DEVIL HIMSELF !!

[Arnumdrusk]

Triplets of Belleville brought me here.

[NmGab]

@PhysicalsimForever Sorry to interfere, but I have to argue with these fact like statements you made. I'm not saying that you are not right more or less, but not using the correct POV. Besides, is science all wrong and bad for giving us atomics, weapons, globalism, etc? I don't think so. So why would religion or beliefs alone be bad? Everything is what we make of them. Science and religion are just easy to be used as tools of power. I think this is as simple as that. ;)

[fkassis76]

3:49 - 5:10 my favorite part of the whole sublime 6:56

[Lenangreal]

@kourosh89 dude are you serious?

[Romeovertherainbow]

@Lenangreal Beethoven? Excellent, and a genius - of course. But he cannot be compared to Mozart, the genius of geniuses according to Albert Einstein, the "Musical Christ" as Tchaikovsky named him, a man who brought light in Music, and he let us all enter a different dimension (yet to be discovered entirely). Also Beethoven, who admired him and who was influenced by him, would have acknowledged this.

[MrThrond]

Why I'm crying?

[NoNamesAvailable7]

@sgjr03 I wish I could like this comment a million times :)

[orphansparrow2]

@PatateRoussoiste thank you so much! i really appreciate it. ~ i will go look up those others now. :)

[PatateRoussoiste]

@orphansparrow2 Barbara Bonney. She sang a wonderful Sophie in der Rosenkavalier by Strauss and she sings Schubert's Lieder very well.