Agnus Dei From Mozart's Coronation Mass

Detail from Matthias Grünewald’s Isenheim Altarpiece

   

  I once wrote a post inspired by the composer Wolfgang Mozart's assertion that Protestant Christians did not understand the Agnus Dei qui tollis peccata mundi (Lamb of God Who takes away the sins of the world) [here].  Whether he was right about that or not, I think Mozart himself did indeed understand: exhibit one, the magnificent Agnus Dei from his Coronation Mass. This is clip is from a Mass at St. Peter's Basilica in 1985: Saint John Paul II is presiding, Herbert von Karajan is conducting the Vienna Philharmonic, and Kathleen Battle is the Soprano.