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Composer:
Francois Gossec

Artist(s):
Salome Haller
Benoit Haller

Conductor:
Jean-Claude Malgoire

Background: Performed for the first time in 1760, the Messe des Morts of François-Joseph Gossec was regularly used for patriotic commemorations during the French Revolution. It was at this time that it became associated with grandiloquence, pomp and spectacle, in a spirit far removed from the Concert-Spirituel.

Jean-Claude Malgoire is better qualified than anyone else to do justice to this extraordinary work, which he rightly considers to be at once the apogee of the music of the 'Ancien Régime' and prophetic of the future.

We read that 'listeners were frightened by the terrible, sinister effect of three trombones combined with four clarinets, four trumpets, four horns and eight bassoons, concealed far off and high up in the church to announce the 'Last Judgment', that this refers to Gossec and not to Berlioz, whose own music was certainly influenced by this incandescent, awe-inspiring Dies Irae.

CATALOGUE NR: K6171522
RECORD LABEL: K617
FORMAT: 2 CD Set
PRICE: including VAT £ 19.99
RELEASE DATE: 09-Feb-2004

COMPOSER: Francois Gossec
TITLE: Missa Pro Defunctis
ORCHESTRA: La Grande Ecurie et la Chambre du Roy
CONDUCTOR: Jean-Claude Malgoire
ARTISTS: Salome Haller   Benoit Haller   Alain Buet   Ingrid Perruche

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