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Mass | Joseph Wilens, Michael Wilens, ... | Bernstein's Mass

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	Mass Joseph Wilens, Michael Wilens, ... Sony, 1997 average customer review:based on 49 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

While critics at the 1971 premiere found the work derivative and even tasteless, audiences loved this ardent, resourceful, somewhat brazen, ultimately moving Theatre Piece for Singers, Players, and Dancers. Leonard Bernstein's affinity for his public and for the age in which he lived enabled him to successfully outfit his Mass with a stylish mix of contemporary and ancient modes--rock, jazz, electronic music, Gregorian chant--and place it in a context somewhere between Broadway and opera. Though it lacks the visual component of a live performance, the work holds up well on this Bernstein-led recording, the only complete version on disc. From the popular "Simple Song" to the Stravinskian rhythmic devices and abundant, memorable melodies, the vital creative force of Bernstein is never absent. --David Vernier

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Leonard Berstein's Mass

I have been searching for this CD for years. It is a recording of the original production that was performed for the opening of the Kennedy Center. I saw this production in 1971 or 72 at the Met in New York.

This is a very good recording and a reminder of a production I saw a very long time ago.

One might get confused thinking this is a different recording than the original production, but it is the same one, the difference is the new cover of the CD because it is not the original cover that was used on the original recording from the 70's, but it is the same recording.

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Bernstein's Mass

This is one of the most enjoyable CD'S, in that the variation of both the music and the libretto leave one stunned.

Loved this production since the 1970's

Although concidered politically incorrect today, this work should be listened to by all peoples who are not taking a serious looked at the church they attend

Bernstein's Mass

Excellent recording - compares well with the live performance that I recently attended. Based on that live performance, I would have preferred a DVD to a CD!

excellent

I don't know enough about classicaly derived music to judge Mass by objective criteria, but I do like it.

Bernstein mixes all types of ideas on Mass: orchestrail, choral, and short songs, some sounding as if they could be from a Broadway show.

What really strikes me is WHY I love this music. I am a big West Side Story fan, and a lot of what grabs me about that work also draws me to Mass-the mix of styles, and even more, the use of dynamics

Bernstein has a way of going from loud to soft in a second, and when he does, all kinds of sounds explode from the few notes he uses, which is even better when you have a race car pair of speakers like I do.

Since Mass is a long piece, these shifts in dynamics go on for an hour or two--depending on if you play the double set back to back--and it is amazing to ride the crests of each wave.

I apologize for the sheer subjectivity of this review. Simply, I like West Side Story and I wanted to hear more of Lenny's composing, so I got Mass; by my usual standards, the review sucks.

If this were a rock or jazz album I could pick it apart for you technically, piece by peice, but this music is not my area of expertise

But I know what I like, and I really, really like Bernstien's Mass

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Tracks
Mass, theatre piece for singers, players & dancers: I. Devotions Before Mass - 1.: Antiphon: Kyrie eleison | Mass, theatre piece for singers, players & dancers: I. Devotions Before Mass - 2.: Hymn and Psalm: A Simple Song | Mass, theatre piece for singers, players & dancers: I. Devotions Before Mass - 3.: Responsory: Alleluia | Mass, theatre piece for singers, players & dancers: II. First Introit (Rondo) - 1.: Prefatory Prayers | Mass, theatre piece for singers, players & dancers: II. First Introit (Rondo) - 2.: Thrice-Triple Canon: Dominus vobiscum | Mass, theatre piece for singers, players & dancers: III. Second Introit - 1.: In nomine Patris | Mass, theatre piece for singers, players & dancers: III. Second Introit - 2.: Prayer for the Congregation (Chorale: Almighty Father) | Mass, theatre piece for singers, players & dancers: III. Second Introit - 3.: Epiphany | Mass, theatre piece for singers, players & dancers: IV. Confession - 1.: Confiteor | Mass: IV. Confession; 2. Trope: 'I Don't Know' | Mass, theatre piece for singers, players & dancers: IV. Confession - 3.: Trope: Easy | Mass, theatre piece for singers, players & dancers: V. Meditation No. 1: Orchestra alone | Mass: VI. Gloria; 1. Gloria Tibi | Mass, theatre piece for singers, players & dancers: VI. Gloria - 2.: Gloria in excelsis | Mass, theatre piece for singers, players & dancers: VI. Gloria - 3.: Trope: Half of the People | Mass, theatre piece for singers, players & dancers: VI. Gloria - 4.: Trope: Thank You | Mass, theatre piece for singers, players & dancers: VII. Meditation No. 2: Orchestra alone | Mass, theatre piece for singers, players & dancers: VIII. Epistle: The Word of the Lord | Mass, theatre piece for singers, players & dancers: IX. Gospel-Sermon: God Said | Mass: X. Credo: 3. Trope: 'Hurry' | Mass, theatre piece for singers, players & dancers: X. Credo - 1.: Credo in unum Deum | Mass, theatre piece for singers, players & dancers: X. Credo - 2.: Trope: Non Credo | Mass, theatre piece for singers, players & dancers: X. Credo - 3.: Trope: Hurry | Mass, theatre piece for singers, players & dancers: X. Credo - 4.: Trope: World Without End | Mass, theatre piece for singers, players & dancers: X. Credo - 5.: Trope: I Believe in God | Mass, theatre piece for singers, players & dancers: XI. Meditation No. 3: (De profundis, part 1) | Mass, theatre piece for singers, players & dancers: XII. Offertory: (De profundis, part 2) | Mass, theatre piece for singers, players & dancers: XIII. The Lord's Prayer - 1.: Our Father... | Mass, theatre piece for singers, players & dancers: XIII. The Lord's Prayer - 2.: Trope: I Go On | Mass, theatre piece for singers, players & dancers: XV. Agnus Dei: Agnus Dei... | Mass, theatre piece for singers, players & dancers: XVI. Fraction: Things Get Broken | Mass, theatre piece for singers, players & dancers: XVII. Pax: Communion: Secret Songs

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