Puccini: Messa di Gloria, etc.

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This recording is to be preferred to Antonio Pappano's very fine account on EMI – and it's not just a question of price. If the recorded sound isn't as opulent as EMI's, it's very clear and lets... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

Catalogue No: 8555304
Label: Naxos
Length: 60 minutes

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Puccini: Messa di Gloria

Work length43:43

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Antonello Palombi (tenor), Gunnar Lundberg (baritone)
Hungarian Radio Chorus, Hungarian Operetta Orchestra
Pier Giorgio Morandi

Kyrie eleison

Track length5:18

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Gloria in excelsis

Track length4:26

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Gratias agimus tibi

Track length4:48

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Qui tollis peccata mundi

Track length4:03

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Quoniam tu solus sanctus

Track length0:57

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Cum Sancto Spiritu

Track length4:30

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Credo in unum Deum

Track length2:30

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Et incarnatus est

Track length2:35

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Crucifixus

Track length2:38

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Et resurrexit

Track length6:05

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Sanctus

Track length1:18

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Benedictus

Track length2:03

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Agnus Dei

Track length2:32

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Puccini: Preludio Sinfonico

Work length9:56

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Hungarian Operetta Orchestra
Pier Giorgio Morandi

Puccini: Crisantemi

Work length6:22

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Hungarian Operetta Orchestra
Pier Giorgio Morandi

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2010

This recording is to be preferred to Antonio Pappano's very fine account on EMI – and it's not just a question of price. If the recorded sound isn't as opulent as EMI's, it's very clear and lets in the light. If the dynamic contrasts aren't so big, they're also rather more refined.
Generally Giorgio Morandi prefers slightly faster speeds, though not so fast as Pappano when he really gets up some steam in the last sections of the Gloria. But in context Morandi brings out the inherent excitement very effectively and naturally whereas Pappano underlines it. With Pappano the majestic Verdian unisons of the 'Qui tollis' broaden like a great smile across a large face: it's grand fun but tends towards vulgarity. Of the work as a whole, Morandi and his forces give a more youthful performance. There's an easy lightness of step (the Gloria sets off with a dance). The chorus is particularly fresh in tone and response, and the tenor soloist, Antonello Palombi, is more gracefully lyrical and Italianate in timbre than either Alagna (with Pappano) or his predecessor Carreras (with Scimone). The baritone is less apt and certainly no match for Hampson (Pappano) or Prey (Scimone); musical nevertheless, and blending well with his colleague in the AgnusDei. In the string piece, Crisantemi, Morandi's somewhat quicker tempo, still answering to the marking andante mesto, is welcome, keeping mawkishness at bay and limiting the over-exposure of rather thin material.

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