Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber Missa Salisburgensis Václav Luks Collegium 1704

Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber Missa Salisburgensis à 53 voci in C-Dur [barocke Messvertonung] [Colossal baroque Mass for Salzburg] Václav Luks Collegium 1704 00:00 Kyrie 06:15 Gloria 16:12 Credo 31:40 Santus Benedictus 37:20 Agnus Dei The Missa Salisburgensis à 53 voci is the largest-scale piece of extant sacred Baroque music, an archetypal work of the Colossal Baroque The Missa Salisburgensis is a polychoral composition which takes advantage of the multiple organs and various locations available for groups of singers and musicians to perform in Salzburg Cathedral, probably for the 1682 celebrations marking the 1100th anniversary of the founding of the Archbishopric of Salzburg The work is scored thus: Choro I: SSAATTBB in concerto* & in cappella*, Organo Choro II: 2 Violini, 4 Viole Choro III: 4 Flauti, 2 Oboi, 2 Clarini* (the oboe parts may have been added later; both parts appear to have been simply copied from the Flauto I and Flauto II lines, and there are no oboe solos in the entire Mass) Choro IV: 2 Corn