Gounod: Mors et Vita
Barbara Hendricks (soprano), Nadine Denize (mezzo), John Aler (tenor), José van Dam (bass-baritone)
Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse & Orféon Donostiarra, Michel Plasson
Despite a recessed recording, Plasson's remains a serviceable rendition of Gounod's grandiose conspectus of human spiritual experience.
Gounod: Mors et Vita
Barbara Hendricks (soprano), Nadine Denize (mezzo), John Aler (tenor), José van Dam (bass-baritone)
Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse & Orféon Donostiarra, Michel Plasson
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Despite a recessed recording, Plasson's remains a serviceable rendition of Gounod's grandiose conspectus of human spiritual experience.
About
“I have placed death before life,” wrote Charles Gounod, “… because in the order of eternal things, death precedes life.” Mors et vita is an epic oratorio filled with operatic drama and its spirit and appeal are exemplified in the celebrated ‘Judex’, a soaring, sweeping chorus. Michel Plasson, as ever a master of French Romantic music, is joined by a splendid quartet of soloists, with Barbara Hendricks illuminating the soprano line and José van Dam taking command of the baritone’s pronouncements.
Contents and tracklist
Gounod:
Mors et Vita, une trilogie sacrée, Pars prima - Mors: Prologue: "Horrendum est incidere... Ego sum Resurrectio (Choeur, Baryton)
Work length5:50
- Christoph Kuhlmann (organ), José van Dam (baritone)
- Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse, Orfeon Donostiarra
- Michel Plasson
Gounod:
Mors et Vita, une trilogie sacrée, Pars prima - Mors, Requiem
Work length1:31:25
- Barbara Hendricks (soprano), Christoph Kuhlmann (organ), John Aler (tenor), José van Dam (baritone), Nadine Denize (contralto), Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse
- Orfeon Donostiarra
- Michel Plasson
no.1A - Introït et Kyrie (Choeur et quatuor de solistes)
Track length11:42
no.1B - "A custodia matutina usque ad noctem"
Track length3:57
no.2 - "Dies irae" (Choeur)
Track length7:51
no.3A - "Quid sum, miser" (Quatuor de solistes et Choeur)
Track length4:51
no.3B - "Felix culpa" (Soprano, Choeur)
Track length4:08
no.4 - "Quaerens me, sedisti lassus" (Soprano, Alto, Choeur)
Track length6:08
no.5 - "Ingemisco tanquam reus (Quatuor de solistes et Choeur)
Track length9:16
no.6 - "Inter oves locum praesta" (Ténor)
Track length3:12
no.7 - "Confutatis maledictis" (Choeur et Quatuor de solistes)
Track length7:12
no.8 - "Lacrymosa" (Choeur et Quatuor de solistes)
Track length5:03
no.9 - Offertorium: "Domine Jesu Christe, Rex Gloriae" (Choeur et Soprano)
Track length9:13
no.10 - Sanctus (Ténor, Choeur)
Track length3:33
no.11 - Pie Jesu (Quatuor de solistes)
Track length4:53
no.12 - Agnus Dei (Soprano, Choeur)
Track length7:26
Epilogue
Track length3:00
Gounod:
Mors et Vita, une trilogie sacrée, Pars secunda - Judicium, Somnus Mortuorum
Work length8:14
- Christoph Kuhlmann (organ)
- Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse
- Michel Plasson
no.1 - Preludio
Track length5:47
no.2 - Tubae ad ultimum judicium
Track length2:27
Gounod:
Mors et Vita, une trilogie sacrée, Pars secunda - Judicium, Resurrectio Mortuorum: "Cum autem venerit" (Baryton)
Work length3:34
- Christoph Kuhlmann (organ), José van Dam (baritone)
- Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse
- Michel Plasson
Gounod:
Mors et Vita, une trilogie sacrée, Pars secunda - Judicium, Judex: no.4 - "Sedenti in Throno" (Choeur)
Work length3:46
- Christoph Kuhlmann (organ)
- Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse, Orfeon Donostiarra
- Michel Plasson
Gounod:
Mors et Vita, une trilogie sacrée, Pars secunda - Judicium, Judicium Electorum
Work length6:17
- Barbara Hendricks (soprano), Christoph Kuhlmann (organ), José van Dam (baritone)
- Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse, Orfeon Donostiarra
- Michel Plasson
no.5 - "Et congregabunter" (Baryton, Soprano, Choeur)
Track length5:31
no.5A - Choral: "In memoria aeterna" (Choeur)
Track length0:46
Gounod:
Mors et Vita, une trilogie sacrée, Pars secunda - Judicium, Judicum Rejectaneorum: no.6 - "Tunc dicet" (Baryton, Choeur)
Work length4:20
- Christoph Kuhlmann (organ), José van Dam (baritone)
- Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse, Orfeon Donostiarra
- Michel Plasson
Gounod:
Mors et Vita, une trilogie sacrée, Pars tertia - Vita, Visio sancti Joannis : no.1- "Et vidi Coelum novum" (Baryton)
Work length3:58
- Christoph Kuhlmann (organ), José van Dam (baritone)
- Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse
- Michel Plasson
Gounod:
Mors et Vita, une trilogie sacrée, Pars tertia - Vita, Jerusalem Coelestis
Work length7:33
- Christoph Kuhlmann (organ), José van Dam (baritone)
- Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse, Orfeon Donostiarra
- Michel Plasson
no.2 - "Et ego Joannes vidi sanctum civitatem" (Baryton)
Track length3:59
no.3 - Sanctus (Choeur)
Track length3:34
Gounod:
Mors et Vita, une trilogie sacrée, Pars tertia - Vita, Vox magna in Coelo: no.4 - "E audivi vocem magnam" (Baryton, Choeur)
Work length4:47
- Christoph Kuhlmann (organ), José van Dam (baritone)
- Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse, Orfeon Donostiarra
- Michel Plasson
Gounod:
Mors et Vita, une trilogie sacrée, Pars tertia - Vita, Lacrymae, dolor, mors, amplius non exstabunt : no.5 - "Et absterget" (Quatuor de solistes)
Work length5:12
- Barbara Hendricks (soprano), Christoph Kuhlmann (organ), John Aler (tenor), José van Dam (baritone), Nadine Denize (contralto)
- Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse
- Michel Plasson
Gounod:
Mors et Vita, une trilogie sacrée, Pars tertia - Vita, Ecce, omnia novata!
Work length10:45
- Christoph Kuhlmann (organ), José van Dam (baritone)
- Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse, Orfeon Donostiarra
- Michel Plasson
no.6 - Et dixit: "qui sedebat in Throno" (Baryton, Choeur)
Track length2:01
no.7 - Choeur celeste: "Ego sum Alpha"
Track length6:32
no.8 - "Hosanna in excelsis" (Chouer)
Track length2:12
Awards and reviews
August 2017
Despite a recessed recording, Plasson's remains a serviceable rendition of Gounod's grandiose conspectus of human spiritual experience.
