Beautiful singing and playing, but I have NEVER heard Mozart 'grace notes' executed in this manner and I've been listening to, playing, singing, and conducting Mozart for 40 years, and was taught by very knowledgeable folks NOT to do so. Anyone have some brilliant insight to offer?
Interesting comment. As a choral singer, we are always instructed to sing grace notes evenly - in early and early-ish music. But that is today. In older recordings, I have heard them sung as this is. I think it is more beautiful sung evenly.
1) Reina del cielo alégrate, aleluya, 0:02 2) porque aquel que mereciste portar, aleluya, resucitó según lo dijo, aleluya. 3:03 3) Ruega por nosotros a Dios 7:51 4) Aleluya 13:32 (Antífona mariana de Pascua)
An extremely cheerful easygoing Bach maybe. The issue with most of Bach's sacred music is his own concept of God, which meant to him worship and devotion but implied too much seriousness; even gravity and distance. Mozart conceived God his almighty good papa who loved to have his children close, playing and enjoying themselves together. Both composers' music portray their vision of the Divine accurately.
The great difference between Bach and Mozart is the much slower harmonic rhytm in the latter. Whereas in B the harmony changes almost every 1/4 note M and his contemporaries keep the harmony unchanged for much longer. The strange thing is that this fundamental change took place in maybe 15 or 20 years between ca 1740 and 1760.
