Mozart : Missa Solemnis

Less admired and popular than the Coronation Mass and Great C Minor Mass, Mozart's Missa Solemnis K 337 should actually be called a missa brevis, whose compact form, for example, dispatches the usually lengthy business of the Credo in a mere five minutes. Though diminutive, K 337 is a festive work not terribly dissimilar to the Coronation Mass, though lacking its uncanny melodiousness. Still, the Missa Solemnis is a fine piece deserving of more attention than it seems to get in the concert hall and on disc.