Berlioz - Grande Messe des Morts - 1873 - Paul McCreesh

ID: SIGCD280 (EAN: 635212028025)  | 2 CD | DDD
Publi: 2011

LABEL:

Signum Records

Compositeurs:

BERLIOZ, Hector Louis

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Berlioz
Grande Messe des Morts

PAUL MCCREESH
ENSEMBLE WROCLAW
ROBERT MURRAY Tenor
GABRIELI PLAYERS
WROCLAW PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
CHETHAM,S SCHOOL OF MUSIC SYMPHONIC BRASS ENSEMBLE
GABRIELI CONSORT
WROCLAW PHILHARMONIC CHOIR
AGNIESZKA FRANKÓW-ELAZNY Artistic Director, Wrocław Philharmonic Choir
BENJAMIN BAYL Assistant Conductor
NICOLE TIBBELS Pronunciation Advisor

1.Grande Messe de Morts, 1837: Requiem et Kyrie
2.Dies Irae
3.Quid sum miser
4.Rex tremendae
5.Quaerens me
6.Lacrimosa
7.Offertorium
8.Hostias
9.Sanctus
10.Agnus Dei

This is the first in a new series of releases from the world-renowned conductor Paul McCreesh and his Gabrieli Consort. Recorded in Poland as part of the Wratislava Cantans Festival (of which McCreesh is artistic director) this staggering performance of Berlioz's 'Grand Mass for the Dead' is produced by a force of over 400 performers - drawn from the Gabrieli Consort and Players, the Wroclaw Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir and students from Chetham's School of Music. Future releases with McCreesh will include Mendelssohn's Elijah, Haydn's The Seasons, Britten's War Requiem and a re-recording of their famed disc 'A Venetian Coronation'.

Founded in 1982 by Artistic Director Paul McCreesh, Gabrieli Consort & Players are worldrenowned interpreters of great choral and instrumental repertoire, spanning from the renaissance to the present day. Their performances encompass virtuosic a cappella programmes, mould-breaking reconstructions of music for historical events, and major works from the oratorio tradition. They are regular visitors to the world's most prestigious concert halls and festivals and have built a large and distinguished discography.

"Paul McCreesh … has a profound understanding of the score and has inspired his Anglo-Polish forces, above all the superb chorus, to feel it with him and take it to their hearts."
The Sunday Times