Les plus belles messes de l'histoire musicale: the finest masses in musical history

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Les plus belles messes de l'histoire musicale: the finest masses in musical history
Soloists / Choeur et Orchestre du Collegium Vocale Gent / La Chapelle Royale / RIAS-Kammerchor / Philippe Herrewege / Marcus Creed

[ Harmonia Mundi / 3 CD ]

Release Date: Wednesday 10 September 2008

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From the contrapuntal summits of the Renaissance to the great solemn Masses of Bach, Mozart and Beethoven, from Romantic renewal to contemporary disillusion: Harmonia mundi invite you to discover generous excerpts from the Masses that have made history!

From the late middle ages to the twentieth century, relive the fascinating history of the Mass, the most ambitious genre in the Catholic sacred repertory. Since the earliest polyphonic Masses dating from the time of Guillaume de Machaut, the form has appeared in a bewildering variety of guises! From the contrapuntal summits of the Renaissance to the great solemn Masses of Bach, Mozart and Beethoven, from Romantic renewal to contemporary disillusion: the artists of harmonia mundi invite you to discover generous excerpts from the Masses that have made history!

Tracks:

CD 1
DU MOYEN AGE A LA RENAISSANCE
1 Ecole de Notre-Dame de Paris (XIIIe siècle)
Messe de la Nativité de la Vierge
Introït "Salve sancta parens" Plaint-chant 4'30
2 Messe de Notre Dame
Kyrie Guillaume de Machaut 10'09
3 Missa O crux lignum
Gloria Antoine Busnois 6'16
4 Messe à 12 voix "Et ecce terrae motus"
Credo Antoine Brumel 9'24
5 Missa Pange lingua
Sanctus Josquin Desprez 6'32
6 Messe "La Bataille"
Agnus Dei Clément Janequin 5'14
7 Requiem [In memoriam Josquin Desprez] à 6 voix
Kyrie Jean Richafort 4'42
8 Missa Praeter rerum seriem à 7 voix
Gloria Cipriano de Rore 5'39
9 Missa Viri Galilaei
Credo Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina 7'35
10 Missa a 24
Sanctus-Benedictus Annibale Padovano 2'54
11 Missa da cappella a sei voci "In illo tempore" (1610)
Agnus Dei Claudio Monteverdi 6'48

CD 2
MESSES SOLENNELLES DE L'AGE CLASSIQUE
1 Missa "Assumpta est Maria" H.11
Symphonie & Kyrie I Marc-Antoine Charpentier 3'45

Messe en si mineur
B minor / h-moll Johann Sebastian Bach
2 Gloria in excelsis Deo 1'42
3 Et in terra pax hominibus bonae voluntatis 4'48
4 Laudamus te 4'27
5 Gratias agimus tibi 2'43
6 Domine Deus 5'42
7 Qui tollis peccata mundi 3'07
8 Qui sedes ad dexteram Patris 4'43
9 Quoniam tu solus sanctus 4'30
10 Cum Sancto Spiritu 4'02

Messe en ut mineur K.427
C minor / c-moll Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
11 Credo 3'26
12 Et incarnatus est 8'17
13 Sanctus 3'34
14 Benedictus 5'43

15 Missa Solemnis op.123 en Ré majeur
D major / D-dur
Agnus Dei Ludwig van Beethoven 15'35

CD 3
MESSES ROMANTIQUES & MODERNES
1 Missa breve (pour double chœur)
Kyrie eleison - Ehre sei Gott in der Höhe - Heilig, heilig, heilig Felix Mendelssohn 7'09

2 Messe en La bémol majeur D.678
Kyrie Franz Schubert 5'23

Petite Messe solennelle
Gloria Gioacchino Rossini
3 Gloria in excelsis Deo 0'36
4 Laudamus te 1'45
5 Gratias 4'46
6 Domine Deus 5'36
7 Qui tollis 6'22
8 Quoniam 7'32
9 Cum Sancto Spiritu 5'35

10 Messe en mi mineur
(pour chœur à 8 voix et ensemble d'instruments à vent)
Credo Anton Bruckner 9'41

11 Messe des pêcheurs de Villerville (1881)
Sanctus Gabriel Fauré / André Messager 2'05

12 Messe en Sol majeur / G major / G-dur
Agnus Dei Francis Poulenc 4'49

13 Messe pour double chœur a cappella
Agnus Dei Frank Martin 4'58

14 Mass
Credo Leonard Bernstein 8'21