Classical Vienna

First cd of Mozart to be considered. Great Mass in C Minor by Paul McCreesh, the Gabrieli Consort and Players with soloists Camilla Tilling and Sarah Connelly. As might be expected from Mozart, a very operatic setting of the mass. Particularly exquisite was the Et incarnatus est sung by Camilla Tilling with sensitive woodwind accompaniment. Some Handelian influence in the choruses too, at least to my ears. A period instrument performance but nothing harsh and scratchy about it. The disk also has two fillers, Berenice's Scena by Haydn and Ah Perfido by Beethoven sung by Sarah Connelly and Camilla Tilling respectively. So all in all, a view of classical Vienna's "big beasts".