Messe de Requiem

Hector Berlioz - Symphonie fantastique / Harold en Italie / 5 Overtures
Donals McInnes / Leonard Bernstein - OrNat de France / LSO - Andre Previn
2xCD | EAC+LOG+CUE | FLAC: 706 MB | Full Artwork: 52 MB | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: EMI "double fforte" # 7143 5 73338 2 5 | Country/Year: Europe 1999
Genre: Classical | Style: Romantic

Hector Berlioz was a French Romantic composer, best known for his compositions Symphonie fantastique and Grande messe des morts (Requiem). Berlioz made significant contributions to the modern orchestra with his Treatise on Instrumentation. He specified huge orchestral forces for some of his works, and conducted several concerts with more than 1,000 musicians. He also composed around 50 songs. His influence was critical for the further development of Romanticism, especially in composers like Richard Wagner, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Franz Liszt, Richard Strauss, Gustav Mahler and many others.

Après un rêve is the title of one of Gabriel Fauré’s most beloved melodies. We have selected the quintessence of the composer’s catalogue in this collection of beautiful tunes featuring Jacqueline du Pré, Sabine Devieilhe, Philippe Jaroussky or Barbara Hendricks.

VIVARTE is the legendary Sony Classical period music label known for producing outstanding recordings on period instruments. The recordings by legendary producer Wolf Erichson are made with the best recording technologies available and by one of the best production teams in the world (Tritonus Music Production, Stuttgart). The collection contains a perfect overview of VIVARTE's legendary catalogue ranging from Vivaldi to Brahms including recordings with specialists in historically informed performance practice such as Anner Bylsma, Gustav Leonhardt, Tafelmusik, Huelgas Ensemble, L'Archibudelli among others. Many of the recordings received critical acclaim all over the world and won prestigious awards. This box set includes CDs presented in paper sleeves with the original artwork, a 250 page booklet with track listings and the original liner notes for each recording.

C'est à Rio, en 1817, que Neukomm composa cette messe monumentale, destinée à saluer l'accession au trône du Portugal et du Brésil, du roi Jean VI, lors de la grande cérémonie d'acclamations qui devait avoir lieu l'année suivante. Mais de sombres raisons la firent censurer et le manuscrit en dormait depuis, parmi les quelques deux mille œuvres léguées à la France par ce compositeur.
Après le "Libera me" ajouté à la version carioca du Requiem de Mozart et le Grand Office funèbre, Jean-Claude Malgoire poursuit ici son exploration raisonnée des chefs d'œuvre de ce compositeur trop injustement oublié, avec cet enregistrement "live".

Hector Berlioz (1803-1869) was a controversial French composer, dramatically splitting the opinions of critics. His most famous work is Symphonie Fantastique. Berlioz was one of the most influential of all 19th-century conductors.

This set documents over three decades of exceptional artistry by Sir Colin Davis, one of the musical pillars of the Philips label, who died on Sunday 14th April 2013. He was a musician of incomparable integrity and class.
After signing to Philips exclusively in the mid-1960s, Davis produced work for the label of the highest quality and range over the next three decades: the first Berlioz cycle , pioneering Tippett, superb Haydn and Mozart, top-rank Sibelius, Beethoven, Stravinsky, Dvorak and Britten, and much else.