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The Grande Messe des morts was recorded one year short of the 50th anniversary of the day that dawned to reveal to Dresdeners the devastation of their city. For many years, Dresden was not an... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

Release Date: 28th Aug 2007
Catalogue No: PH07014
Label: Profil Medien
Series: Edition Staatskapelle Dresden
Length: 88 minutes

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Berlioz: Grande Messe des Morts, Op. 5 (Requiem)

Work length1:28:45

$22.00

$28.30

Keith Ikaia-Purdy (tenor)
Dresden State Opera Chorus, Staatskapelle Dresden, Dresden Symphony Chorus, Dresden Singakademie
Sir Colin Davis
Recorded: 14th February, 1994
Recording Venue: Kreuzkirche Dresden, Germany

Requiem et Kyrie

Track length11:29

$3.00

$3.85

Dies irae

Track length13:08

$3.00

$3.85

Quid sum miser

Track length3:06

$1.00

$1.30

Rex tremendae

Track length6:35

$1.00

$1.30

Quaerens me

Track length4:57

$1.00

$1.30

Lacrimosa

Track length10:32

$3.00

$3.85

Offertoirium

Track length10:41

$3.00

$3.85

Hostias

Track length3:41

$1.00

$1.30

Sanctus

Track length11:13

$3.00

$3.85

Agnus Dei

Track length13:23

$3.00

$3.85

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2010

The Grande Messe des morts was recorded one year short of the 50th anniversary of the day that dawned to reveal to Dresdeners the devastation of their city. For many years, Dresden was not an easy city for Englishmen to visit; but attitudes change, and it was certainly a moving gesture for Davis to conduct this performance. The Kreuzkirche has been beautifully reconstructed, and it has beautiful acoustics that welcome Berlioz's wide-ranging demands.
The quieter moments fare best here: the strange chords in the Hostias, with a firm trom- bone seeming to project overtones in the flutes; the soft cor anglais and bassoon lines over cellos and basses in the Quid sum miser; the unaccompanied choral Quarens me, which the Dresden choirs sing most sensitively; the high sounds of the Sanctus, with Keith Ikaia-Purdy an elegant if slightly operatic tenor. The acoustic seems positively to welcome these, and it can well accommodate, though not without some loss of verbal clarity, the great clamour of the Dies irae and the snapping rhythms of the Lacrymosa, which have a cut that Davis achieves more sharply than any other conductor. This is his only recording of the work since his classic 1969 version, and his grasp of the music remains supreme.

October 2007

For many years, despite the warmth of Saxon welcome, Dresden was not an easy city for Englishmen to visit; but attitudes change, and it was certainly a moving gesture for Davis to conduct this performance. The Kreuzkirche has been beautifully reconstructed, and it has beautiful acoustics that welcome Berlioz's wide-ranging demands. ...the clamour of the Dies irae and the snapping rhythms of the Lacrymosa... have a cut that Davis achieves more sharply than any other conductor. ...his grasp of the music remains supreme.

Edition Staatskapelle Dresden - Volume 20

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