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Your favorite mass

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#1 · (Edited)
What are your favorite masses?

My favorites are: Rossini's Petite Messe Solennelle, Beethoven's Op. 86 and Op. 123, Messe de Notre Dame, Bach's Mass in B minor, Puccini's Messa, Mozart's Great Mass K. 427 and Palestrina's Missa ***** sum, Missa Papae Marcelli and Missa Viri Galilaei. Victoria's Missa Gaudeamus.
Haydn's Nelson Mass.
 
#106 · (Edited)
I just heard this on the radio, by Faure, and was instantly hooked. It is beautiful the way he changed the chords on the main melody, modernizing it, but still beautiful. I gotta get this!



http://amzn.com/B0000031HB
 
#108 ·
I want to bring attention to the sixth of the "six Naples L'homme arme masses", as it has been recently recorded by Cantica Symphonia (it's on spotify as well as still in print). The six masses were obviously designed by a single composer as a mass cycle, each using a different part of the "L'homme arme" tune as the cantus firmus. They're attributed to Busnois due to stylistic similarities. Busnois is one of the great early Renaissance composers, overshadowed today by Dufay and Ockeghem but mentioned by the eminent music theorist of the time as one of the greats.

It's a nice mass for any fan of the very special couple of decades that were dominated by Dufay, Ockeghem, Caron, Faugues, Regis and Busnois himself.
 
#110 ·
My favorite mass is the one that was removed from by brain.
 
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