Verdi: Messa solenne

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With the 2001 Giuseppe Verdi centenary in progress, musicologists and performers have been sweeping out some of the dustier corners of his nonoperatic work, and this release is an example. It offers the first known recording of a recently discovered Mass, written in 1833 when the composer was still studying, together with other religious rarities from his otherwise irreligious pen: some early settings of the Qui Tollis and Tantum Ergo; a much later Pater Noster and Ave Maria, intended to be heard together even though they require different forces; and the freestanding Libera Me that ended up, adapted, as the Verdi Requiem finale. The Mass is inoffensively Rossinian, the Qui Tollis an essay in the style of Mozart; and they give you little sense of what their author would become. But this performance does, in the Qui Tollis, give you the wonderful young bel canto tenor Juan Diego Florez, heard recently at Covent Garden. And as always, Riccardo Chailly conducts with sensitivity to idiom and original intent--which also means that he opens out the scale of sound for the Libera Me, and delivers in the process an electrifying account. Christina Gallardo-Domas is the soloist for that and, along with Florez, adds some flesh and blood to what otherwise might appear to be collector's repertory. --Michael White

Tracks:

Messa solenne: Kyrie eleison - Orchestra Sinfonica Di Milano Giuseppe Verdi
Messa solenne: Christe eleison - Orchestra Sinfonica Di Milano Giuseppe Verdi
Messa solenne: Kyrie eleison - Orchestra Sinfonica Di Milano Giuseppe Verdi
Messa solenne: Gloria in excelsis - Orchestra Sinfonica Di Milano Giuseppe Verdi
Messa solenne: Qui tollis peccata mundi - Orchestra Sinfonica Di Milano Giuseppe Verdi
Messa solenne: Cum Sancto Spiritu - Elisabetta Scano - soprano
Qui tollis - Juan Diego Florez - tenor
Tantum ergo in F major - Michele Pertusi - bass
Laudate pueri - Eldar Aliev - bass
Tantum ergo in G major - Kenneth Tarver - tenor
Pater noster - Orchestra Sinfonica Di Milano Giuseppe Verdi
Ave Maria - Cristina Gallardo-Domas - soprano
Libera me (Messa per Rossini) - Cristina Gallardo-Domas - soprano

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With the 2001 Giuseppe Verdi centenary in progress, musicologists and performers have been sweeping out some of the dustier corners of his nonoperatic work, and this release is an example. It offers the first known recording of a recently discovered Mass, written in 1833 when the composer was still studying, together with other religious rarities from his otherwise irreligious pen: some early settings of the Qui Tollis and Tantum Ergo; a much later Pater Noster and Ave Maria, intended to be heard together even though they require different forces; and the freestanding Libera Me that ended up, adapted, as the Verdi Requiem finale. The Mass is inoffensively Rossinian, the Qui Tollis an essay in the style of Mozart; and they give you little sense of what their author would become. But this performance does, in the Qui Tollis, give you the wonderful young bel canto tenor Juan Diego Florez, heard recently at Covent Garden. And as always, Riccardo Chailly conducts with sensitivity to idiom and original intent--which also means that he opens out the scale of sound for the Libera Me, and delivers in the process an electrifying account. Christina Gallardo-Domas is the soloist for that and, along with Florez, adds some flesh and blood to what otherwise might appear to be collector's repertory. --Michael White

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