Sunday Brunch – Miah Persson Sings Sacred Mozart

Yesterday morning I was daydreaming about Miah Persson singing Lungi da te mio bene from Mozart’s Mitridate. And I wondered to myself: what else could ever be as lovely? I came across this performance of the Et incarnatus from Mozart’s Great C minor mass.  Mozart never completed this mass, and it’s really the most operatic sacred work he wrote—with lots of flashy arias and massive double choruses. It’s kind of Mozart’s answer to the Verdi Requiem (if, indeed, anyone had asked) or Rossini’s Stabat Mater.  If Mozart had completed this Mass, it would rival Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis or Bach’s B-minor Mass  in massiveness (pun intended).

Anyway, here is some massively beautiful singing from the lovely and talented Miah Persson. 

Oh, and remember the other day, when I was wishing I could hear Ann Hallenberg and Miah Persson sing together? Well, as soon as I can track down the full recording of this Mass (from the Nobel Peace Prize Concert in 2009, and conducted by John Eliot Gardiner) I will get to! And, the concert features another Swedish gem: Peter Mattei (I will gush about him in an upcoming post).