The Great Mass

The Great Mass ballet. Choreography 2005 by Uwe Scholz at the Leipzig Opera House. Music includes Gregorian Chant as well as pieces by Mozart, Thomas Jahn, György Kurtág, Paul Telan, and Arvo Pärt. Poems by Paul Celan. Stars Leipzig Ballet first soloists Kiyoko Kimura, Oksana Kulchytska, Sibylle Naundorf, Christoph Böhm, and Gionvanni Di Palma; soloists Maiko Oishi, Elena Tumanova, Sebastian Angermaier, Rémy Fichet, Michael Goldhahn, and Yuichiro Yokozeki; demi-soloists Alla Bykanova, Irina Goloubeva, Anna Tsybina, Ekaterina Tumanova, Sven Köhler, Mirko Mahr, and Mohamed Youssry. Michael Goldhahn is reciter. Stars singers Eunyee You, Marie-Claude Chappuis, Werner Güra, and Friedemann Röhlig. Balázs Kocsár conducts the Gewandhausorchester and Chorus of the Leipzig Opera (Chorus Master Stephan Bilz). Directed for TV by Hans Hulscher. Released 2011, disc has 5.1 dts-HD Master Audio sound. Grade: Help!

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