Mozart, Kyrie in D minor, K. 341

The Vienna State Opera Chorus's All Saints' Day concert has become an
institution in Vienna. Although the superbly homogeneous and subtly shading
chorus plays the most important role throughout this concert, the orchestra
also unfolds its warm and colorful and, at times, forceful personality. The
concert in which this work was recorded took place on All Saints' Day 1986
under the musical direction of Claudio Abbado.
Mozart's Kyrie in D minor K. 341 is a monumental torso written most likely
in Vienna in 1788. It dispenses with all traditional restrictions and
conventions of church music; for example, it contains no solo vocal parts,
includes clarinets and four horns for the first time in Mozart's sacred
music, and prefigures the tragic solemnity of the Requiem with the use of
the same key of D minor.

Composer:	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Title:	Mozart, Kyrie in D minor, K. 341
Conductor:	Claudio Abbado
Soloist:	Karita Mattila
Orchestra:	Wiener Philharmoniker
Chorus:	Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor
Video Director:	Franz Kabelka
Genre:	Concert
Length:	8 minutes
Cat.No.:	A05501411