指揮：Prof.Christfried Gockeritz
Hochschul- und Kammerchor, Jugendchor des Musikgymnasiums Schwerin, Hochschulorchester
Live-Mitschnitt vom 26.01.2015 aus dem Katharinensaal der HMT-Rostock
The Mass No. 3 in F minor, WAB 28, is a setting of the mass ordinary for vocal soloists, chorus and orchestra, and organ ad libitum, that Anton Bruckner composed in 1867-1868.
Setting
The work is set for SATB choir and soloists, and orchestra (2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets in B-flat, 2 bassoons, 2 horns in F, 2 horns in B-flat, 2 trumpets in C, alto, tenor and bass trombones, timpani, and strings), and organ ad libitum.
The organ, present in the Woss edition, is absent in the Haas edition, and put "ad libitum" in the current Gesamtausgabe. "The organ serves first of all to accentuate significant passages, in order to increase their sound brightness."
The work is divided into six parts:
1. Kyrie - Moderato, F minor
2. Gloria - Allegro, C major
3. Credo - Allegro, C major
4. Sanctus - Moderato, F major
5. Benedictus - Allegro moderato, A-flat major
6. Agnus Dei - Andante, F minor veering to F major
Total duration: about 62 minutes
The "Gloria" starts out with the words "Gloria in excelsis Deo" and the "Credo" with the words "Credo in unum Deum" sung by the whole choir, rather than intoned in Gregorian mode by a soloist, as in Bruckner's previous masses. The setting is more symphonic than that of the Mass No. 1, with a larger contribution of the soloists. Bruckner indicated bars 170-179 of the "Gloria" - a part of the last "Miserere nobis" - as optional. As yet, these ten bars were recorded by only a few conductors. Whereas the "Gloria" ends with a fugue in all Bruckner's masses, in Mass No. 3, as in his previous Missa solemnis, the "Credo" also ends with a fugue, a "classical feature". In this fugue the next voice entry is preceded by the acclamation "Credo, credo" sustained by the organ. The theme of the "Agnus Dei" has some reminiscence of that of the Missa solemnis. The "Dona nobis" resumes the theme of the "Kyrie" in major mode, and recalls the fugue subject of the "Gloria" and the last phrase of the "Credo".
The composition of the Mass in F minor may have been influenced by Schubert's late Mass No. 5 in A flat major and Mass No. 6 in E flat major.
Notes
Bruckner's Symphony No. 2 quotes both the "Kyrie" in its finale, and the "Benedictus" in its Adagio.
The Adagio of Symphony No. 9, bar 139, quotes also the "Kyrie" call by the oboe.