Rossini: Petite Messe solennelle

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Release Date: 14th Jun 2019
Catalogue No: SWR19521CD
Label: SWR Music
Length: 79 minutes

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Rossini: Petite Messe Solenelle

Work length1:19:27

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Roberto Szidon (piano), Reiner Holthaus (bass), Lucia Mazzarria (soprano), Richard Metzler (piano), Helene Schneidermann (alto), Detlef Dörner (harmonium), Kenneth Tarver (tenor)
SWR Vokalensemble
Rupert Huber

I. Kyrie

Track length6:52

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IIa. Gloria. Gloria in excelsis Deo

Track length1:54

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IIb. Gloria. Gratias agimus tibi

Track length5:41

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IIc. Gloria. Domine Deus

Track length5:13

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IId. Gloria. Qui tollis peccata mundi

Track length5:46

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IIe. Gloria. Quoniam tu solus sanctus

Track length6:54

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IIf. Gloria. Cum sancto spiritu

Track length5:55

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IIIa. Credo. Credo in unum Deum

Track length4:12

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IIIb. Credo. Crucifixus

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IIIc. Credo. Et resurrexit

Track length9:11

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IVa. Preludio religioso

Track length7:47

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IVb. Ritornello -V. Sanctus

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VI. O salutaris hostia

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VII. Agnus Dei

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This is a re-release of an SWRmusic bestseller. The recording was the very first one of the original version of Rossini’s Petite Messe solennelle, realized using the critical new edition based on Rossini’s autograph score published in 1991 by Carus. Gioachino Rossini's Petite messe solennelle (Little solemn mass) was written in 1863, possibly at the request of Count Alexis Pillet-Will for his wife Louise to whom it is dedicated. The composer, who had retired from composing operas more than 30 years before, described it as "the last of my péchés de vieillesse" (sins of old age). The extended work is a missa solemnis, but Rossini labeled it, not without irony, petite (little). He scored it originally for twelve singers, four of them soloists, two pianos and harmonium. The mass was first performed on 14 March 1864 at the couple's new home in Paris. Rossini later produced an orchestral version, including an additional movement, a setting of the hymn "O salutaris hostia" as a soprano aria. This version of the mass was not performed during his lifetime because he could not obtain permission to perform it with female singers in a church. It was first performed three months after his death, at the Salle Ventadour in Paris by the company of the Théâtre-Italien on 24 February 1869.

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