Mozart Great Mass in C Minor Ave Verum Corpus Exsultate Jubilate

This performance of Mozarts Great Mass in C minor which remained an unfinished torso is reverent and highly dramatic It was filmed 46 April 1990 in the beautiful Baroque Basilica of Waldsassen in Bavaria a few kilometers from the Czech border It was filmed just a few months after the Iron Curtain had fallen a mere 6 months before Bernsteins death on 14 October 1990 His painful labored breathing is evident during this performance It is a sad reminder of what is to come and it makes this performance so otherworldly in many ways particularly poignant Bernstein conducts the splendid Chor und Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks