Igor Stravinsky - Mass for chorus and double wind quintet [With score]

-Composer: Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky (17 June 1882 – 6 April 1971) -Performers: Ensemble Musikfabrik -Choir: RIAS Kammerchor -Conductor: Daniel Reuss Mass for chorus and double wind quintet, written in 1948 00:00 - I. Kyrie 02:34 - II. Gloria 06:17 - III. Credo 10:45 - IV. Sanctus 14:25 - V. Agnus Dei After the composition of Oedipus rex (1926-1927) it was unusual for Stravinsky to write a non-commissioned work. Also, since 1926 Stravinsky had been a communicant of the Russian Orthodox Church. Thus, it seems peculiar that the composer would write a concerted Latin mass. The motivation stems from what seems to have been a negative reaction to some masses of Mozart, which Stravinsky found in a second-hand music store in Los Angeles in 1942. The choice of the traditional Latin text of the Catholic Mass was a practical one: the Russian Orthodox Church proscribed the use of instruments in services, and Stravinsky did not want to write an unaccompanied vocal work. The