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Berlioz - Messe solennelle

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Label: Alpha

Cat No: ALPHA564

Barcode: 3760014195648

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Vocal/Choral

Release Date: 15th November 2019

Contents

Artists

Adriana Gonzalez (soprano)
Julien Behr (tenor)
Andreas Wolf (bass)
Le Concert Spirituel Choeur & Orchestre

Conductor

Herve Niquet

Works

Berlioz, Hector

Messe solennelle, H20

Artists

Adriana Gonzalez (soprano)
Julien Behr (tenor)
Andreas Wolf (bass)
Le Concert Spirituel Choeur & Orchestre

Conductor

Herve Niquet

About

Composed in 1824 by Hector Berlioz at the age of twenty-one and premiered at the church of Saint-Roch in Paris in 1825, the Messe solennelle has come down to us following an eventful history. After Berlioz declared that he had destroyed the score, the mass was considered lost until it was rediscovered in Antwerp in 1992. This remarkable work helps us both to appreciate the development of Berlioz’s style – already revolutionary in his early years – and to understand what he owed to his contemporaries, notably Cherubini, whose monumental Requiem Hervé Niquet has already recorded (ALPHA251). Scored for three soloists (soprano, tenor and bass), chorus and orchestra, the work consists of thirteen movements, material from which Berlioz was to reuse in several later works, notably in the ‘Scène aux champs’ of the Symphonie fantastique, which quotes the ‘Gratias’. On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of Berlioz’s death, Hervé Niquet, fascinated by this work – ‘There’s nothing he doesn’t know about dramaturgy and vocal style. At the age of twenty!’ – decided to programme it (the concert at the famous Berlioz Festival of La Côte Saint-André was a memorable occasion) and record it in the Chapelle Royale of the Château de Versailles.

Reviews

A single recording, by John Eliot Gardiner, of this lost early work, discovered in 1992, might have been enough. Berlioz had been studying composition for about 18 months. But here’s another, by Hervé Niquet and his lively period forces. The performance is vivid (the Kyrie is brilliant)
The Sunday Times

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