Gossec - Missa Pro Defunctis / S. Haller, Perruche, Auvity, B. Haller, Buet, Varkonyi, La Grande Écurie et la Chambre du Roy, Malgoire

Name: Gossec - Missa Pro Defunctis / S. Haller, Perruche, Auvity, B. Haller, Buet, Varkonyi, La Grande Écurie et la Chambre du Roy, Malgoire
Brand: K 617 (Harmonia Mundi)
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Although it was performed for the first time in 1760, the Messe des Morts of François-Joseph Gossec was regularly used for patriotic commemoratons during the French Revolution. It was at this time that it became associated with grandiloquence, pomp and spectacle, ina spirit far removed from the finest performances of this masterpiece of Frnech music at the Concert-Spirituel. Jean-Claude Malgoire is better qualified than anyone else to do justice to this extraordinary work, which he rightly considers to be at once the apogee of the musi cof the Ancien Régime and prophetic of the future;. It is amazing to realize, when we read that 'listeners were frightened by the terrible, sinister effect fo three trombones combined with four clarinets, four trumpets, four horns and eight bassoons, concealed far off and high up in the church to announce the Last Judgement', that this refers to Gossec and not to Berlioz, whose own music was certainly influenced by this incandescent, awe-inspiring Dies Irae.

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Publisher:: K 617 (Harmonia Mundi)
Publication Date:: 2004-03-17

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