Uwe Scholz, ballet director in Leipzig, was hailed as one of the most brilliant choreographic minds of his generation when he died in November 2004 at the early age of 45. His ballet “The Great Mass” is one of the most impressive works of this important neoclassical Choreographer - a requiem, a choreographic revelation and certainly his grand legacy to the Leipzig ballet. The full length Choreography, here recorded at the Leipzig Opera in a performance in June 2005, takes its name from Mozart's famous unfinished Mass in C minor. It absorbs the structure of the liturgy of the mass and adds other works by Mozart as well as passages of Gregorian chant, and sequences from contemporary music by Gy?rgy Kurtág, Thomas Jahn and Arvo P?rt and readings of poems by Paul Celan. Internationally famous soloists from the Leipzig Ballet, among them Kiyoko Kimura, Christoph B?hm and Oksana Kulchytska, take on the leading roles and the staging proves the ensemble to be one of the best ballet companies worldwide. 

Music:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:
Great Mass in C minor, K. 427
Adagio and Fugue in C minor, K. 546
Ave verum corpus, K. 618
Gy?rgy Kurtág: Játékok (excerpts)
Thomas Jahn: Orte und Zeiten – tempi e luoghi (excerpts)
Arvo P?rt: Credo
Gregorian Chants

◎演出阵容
Kiyoko Kimura, Oksana Kulchytska, Sibylle Naundorf, Christoph B?hm, Giovanni Di Palma, Michael Goldhahn (reciter), Eunyee You (soprano), Marie-Claude Chappuis (mezzo-soprano), Werner Güra (tenor), Friedmann R?hlig (bass), Leipzig Ballet, Leipzig Opera Chorus, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra