Entries by Maria Groß

Loreley. Volkslieder für Chöre

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Mendelssohn’s Wedding March combined with the Birds’ Wedding? When we played this audio sample from the accompanying CD to the new Loreley choral collection in a workshop given by the editor Volker Hempfling at chor.com in Dortmund earlier this year, some people in the audience could hardly suppress their smiles. By this point at the latest, two things were clear to all the participants: namely, that folk songs are not in the slightest bit boring, and that three-part settings with just one male voice part can sound just as good as their four-part equivalents.

W. A. Mozart: Messe in c-Moll KV 427

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For Miriam Groß, the “Missa in C minor” is one of the most impressive Mozart mass settings. The incomplete mass was not – as usual – written on the basis of a composition commission, but Mozart vowed to write a mass if he succeeded in marrying his well-known Constanze Weber. Against this background, it is not surprising that the soprano solo (the future Constanze Mozart was after all a soprano) has a very large, often operatic aria-like part in this mass. The mass was reconstruted several times; two of these versions are available from Carus.