Berlioz: Grande Messe des Morts, Op. 5 (Requiem)

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Bror Magnus Tødenes (tenor)

Choir of Collegiûm Mûsicûm, Bergen Philharmonic Choir, Edvard Grieg Kor, Royal Northern College of Music Choir, Eikanger-Bjørsvik Musikklag, Musicians from the Bergen Philharmonic Youth Orchestra & Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Edward Gardner

[Gardner] has the measure of this work – of its pacing, its contrasts and, not least, of its idiosyncrasies. Among my favourite moments here is the momentous hush before the final ‘mors stupebit’…Achieving... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2019, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 5th Oct 2018
Catalogue No: CHSA5219
Label: Chandos
Length: 80 minutes

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Berlioz: Grande Messe des Morts, Op. 5 (Requiem)

Work length1:20:51

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Bror Magnus Tødenes (tenor)
Collegiûm Mûsicûm Bergen Choir, Edvard Grieg Kor, Royal Northern College of Music Chorus, Bergen Philharmonic Choir, Bergen Philharmonic Youth Orchestra, Bergen Filharmoniske Orkester, Eikanger-Bjørsvik Band
Edward Gardner
Recorded: 21-24 May 2018
Recording Venue: Grieghallen, Bergen, Norway

I. Requiem et Kyrie (Live)

Track length10:25

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II. Dies irae (Live)

Track length11:03

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III. Quid sum miser (Live)

Track length2:49

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IV. Rex tremendae (Live)

Track length5:47

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V. Quaerens me (Live)

Track length4:40

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VI. Lacrimosa (Live)

Track length9:50

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VII. Offertoire (Live)

Track length8:51

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VIII. Hostias (Live)

Track length3:40

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IX. Sanctus (Live)

Track length11:08

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X. Agnus Dei (Live)

Track length12:38

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With this surround-sound recording of Berlioz’s Requiem, Edward Gardner and the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra tackle the infinite and the immeasurable.All the grandiose, striking beauty of the Requiem’s large-scale ceremonial is encapsulated by first-class vocal and orchestral forces, fully utilising the spatial possibilities of Grieghallen in Bergen. The matching of space and sonority was one of Berlioz’s lasting obsessions, one experience in St Paul’s Cathedral in London throwing Berlioz into a delirium of emotion from which he took days to recover. His Grande Messe des morts, notorious for its requirement of four brass bands in addition to a large orchestra and chorus, taken here from live concerts, has often been seen as one of the most emotionally powerful works of its kind. Setting a solemn and austere, even ascetic text, the music is not that of an orthodox believer but of a visionary, inspired by the dramatic implications of death and judgement.

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January 2019

[Gardner] has the measure of this work – of its pacing, its contrasts and, not least, of its idiosyncrasies. Among my favourite moments here is the momentous hush before the final ‘mors stupebit’…Achieving homogeneity from four separate choirs for any performance can be a problem, but here they blend perfectly and not only does their massed sound balance well with the orchestra but, for the most part anyway, words are audible.

November 2018

It is very much on the devotional side, and event contemplated and observed rather than experienced.

December 2018

The Bergen Philharmonic plays Berlioz’s wonderfully imaginative orchestral score quite marvellously and at the very end, where the subdued choral writing flowers into radiance the Bergen choirs produce a lovely sound.

16th June 2019

This vivid live Requiem is one of the quickest on disc, but rarely seems lacking in spaciousness, for the good reason that it was recorded in a concert hall — the Grieghalle, in Bergen — not in a resonant cathedral. Gardner’s well-drilled, expressive forces have the ever-imposing music’s measure.

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