Mass in A-flat major and other liturgical works ... May 4, 1997
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"The year 1997 marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of the great Viennese composer, Franz Schubert. As a part of the Department of Music's year-long series of concerts, "Remembering the Romantics," we present Schubert's Mass in A-Flat Major along with two of his smaller works placed in their appropriate liturgical context within the Mass. Unlike his four early settings of the Mass text (including the perennial favorite, the Mass in G Major), Schubert did not write the Mass in A-Flat Major as the result of a particular commission, but as proof of his mastery of the genre. In November 1819 he began to sketch the Kyrie, and he completed the Agnus Dei during the autumn of 1822. He returned to the work and revised it in late 1825 or 1826. No other Mass occupied him for so long a period."--Program notes.
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Kyrie -- Gloria -- Gradual: Benedictus es, Domine, D. 184 -- Credo -- Offertory: Intende voci, D. 963 -- Sanctus -- Benedictus -- Agnus Dei