Neville Marriner, Academy of St Martin in the Fields - Gioacchino Rossini: Messa di Gloria (1992)

Posted By: ArlegZ
Date: Dec. 30, 2023

Neville Marriner, Academy of St Martin in the Fields - Gioacchino Rossini: Messa di Gloria (1992)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 261 Mb | Total time: 58:33 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Philips | # 434 132-2 | Recorded: 1992

Gioachino Rossini's Messa di Gloria of 1821, right in the middle of the years when he ruled the operatic scene, has been less often recorded than the free-spirited and personal Stabat Mater of his old age. Various reasons could be advanced for this comparative neglect. Stacked up against Rossini's operas of the period it's something of a mixed bag. Some of it is intensely operatic, but it also looks back to the past with its giant contrapuntal "Cum sancto spiritu" (the mass consists of a Kyrie and Gloria). From the point of view of the cult of individual Romantic genius, a major problem is that Rossini may have had a collaborator on the work, one Pietro Raimondi, who honed some of the more polyphonic passages. This 1992 recording deserves the "legendary" label attached to the packaging, for it makes positives of the work's problems and is splendidly performed all around. One can listen with the efforts of the all-star group of soloists foremost in mind; the controlled explosions of soprano Sumi Jo in the Laudamus te (track 5) stand out from a group of uniformly fine sacred arias. One can listen for the really exceptional sound of the Chorus of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, with the tenor section achieving an uncanny blazing sound in some of the denser choral writing. And all of this virtuoso work is brought together by conductor Neville Marriner, in one of the finest performances of his long career: he sets the chorus and soloists in a sharply carved contrast and creates an image that is dramatic as a whole, an image of a church and its flock of individual followers. The notes by early Italian opera specialist Philip Gossett are especially informative, and the fine original engineering is unscathed – really a pleasure to hear in the solo arias.
–James Manheim

Performer:
Sumi Jo, soprano
Ann Murray, mezzo-soprano
Francisco Araiza, tenor
Raúl Gimenez, tenor
Samuel Ramey, bass
Academy & Chorus of St Martin in the Fields
Sir Neville Marriner, conductor

Tracklist:
Gioacchino Rossini (1792-1868)
Messa di Gloria per soli, coro e orchestra
Kyrie
01. Kyrie eleison
02. Christe eleison
03. Kyrie eleison
Gloria
04. Gloria in excelsis Deo
05. Laudamus te
06. Gratias agimus tibi
07. Domine Deus
08. Qui tollis pecata mundi
09. Qui tollis pecata mundi
10. Qui sedes as dexteram Patris
11. Quoniam tu solus sanctus
12. Cum sancto spiritu


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