Mozart: Requiem / Paisiello: Messe pour le sacre de Napoléon

 
Mozart: Requiem / Paisiello: Messe pour le sacre de Napoléon cover
$35.00 Out of Stock
2-4 weeks
add to cart

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART / GIOVANNI PAISIELLO
Mozart: Requiem / Paisiello: Messe pour le sacre de Napoléon
Le Concert de la Loge; Chœur de Chambre de Namur; Julien Chauvin; Sandrine Piau

[ Alpha Classics / CD ]

Release Date: Friday 24 March 2023

This item is currently out of stock. We expect to be able to supply it to you within 2 - 4 weeks from when you place your order.

Mozart's Requiem was not performed in Paris until 1804, in a version slightly different from the composer's original score. The press reported a triumph. That same year also saw the coronation of Napoleon Bonaparte - who had brought back a pronounced taste for Italian music from his Mediterranean conquests. He appointed the Neapolitan Giovanni Paisiello (1740-1816) as his maître de chapelle and commissioned him to write the music for his coronation: a Solemn Mass in B flat major. The Palazzetto Bru Zane has produced the modern edition of the work that is recorded here. Aside from the sumptuous events of 1804, the other year that links Napoleon to Mozart is 1841, when the Requiem was heard once more, this time at Les Invalides as Napoleon's remains entered the building for their final burial. Sandrine Piau, Chantal Santon, Eléonore Pancrazi, Mathias Vidal and Thomas Dolié are the soloists in this programme, with Julien Chauvin conducting his ensemble Le Concert de la Loge and the Namur Chamber Choir.

Tracks:

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Requiem in D Minor, K. 626: II. Requiem
Requiem in D Minor, K. 626: III. Dies irae
Requiem in D Minor, K. 626: IV. Tuba mirum
Requiem in D Minor, K. 626: V. Rex tremendae
Requiem in D Minor, K. 626: VI. Recordare
Requiem in D Minor, K. 626: VII. Confutatis
Requiem in D Minor, K. 626: VIII. Lacrimosa
Requiem in D Minor, K. 626: IX. Agnus Dei

Giovanni Paisiello
Messe pour le sacre de Napoléon: I. Kyrie
Messe pour le sacre de Napoléon: II. Gloria, Gloria
Messe pour le sacre de Napoléon: III. Gloria, Laudamus te
Messe pour le sacre de Napoléon: IV. Gloria, Gratias agimus tibi
Messe pour le sacre de Napoléon: V. Gloria, Domine Deus
Messe pour le sacre de Napoléon: VI. Gloria, Qui sedes ad dexteram Patris
Messe pour le sacre de Napoléon: VII. Gloria, Quoniam
Messe pour le sacre de Napoléon: VIII. Gloria, Cum sanctus spiritu
Messe pour le sacre de Napoléon: IX. Credo, Credo

Nicolas-Charles Bochsa
Prélude pour harpe

Giovanni Paisiello
Messe pour le sacre de Napoléon: X. Et incarnatus est
Messe pour le sacre de Napoléon: XI. Et in spiritum sanctum
Messe pour le sacre de Napoléon: XII. Sanctus
Messe pour le sacre de Napoléon: XIII. Agnus Dei
Messe pour le sacre de Napoléon: XIV. Domine salvum fac imperatorem