Haydn - Missa Cellensis; Jommelli - Te Deum, Mass in D major | Orfeo MP2101

Haydn - Missa Cellensis; Jommelli - Te Deum, Mass in D major

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Label: Orfeo

Cat No: MP2101

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 2

Genre: Vocal/Choral

Release Date: 19th March 2021

Contents

Artists

Lucia Popp (soprano)
Doris Soffel (alto)
Horst Laubenthal (tenor)
Kurt Moll (bass)
Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Judy Berry (soprano)
Marta Benackova (alto)
John La Pierre (tenor)
Nikolaus Meer (bass)
Prager Kammerchor
Virtuosi di Praga

Conductors

Rafael Kubelik
Hilary Griffiths

Works

Haydn, Franz Joseph

Mass in C major, Hob. XXV:5 'Missa Sancta Caeciliae', 'Missa cellensis'

Jommelli, Niccolo

Mass in D major
Te Deum in D major

Artists

Lucia Popp (soprano)
Doris Soffel (alto)
Horst Laubenthal (tenor)
Kurt Moll (bass)
Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Judy Berry (soprano)
Marta Benackova (alto)
John La Pierre (tenor)
Nikolaus Meer (bass)
Prager Kammerchor
Virtuosi di Praga

Conductors

Rafael Kubelik
Hilary Griffiths

About

Known as the St Cecilia Mass, Haydn’s fifth Missa is the longest and most complex setting of the Latin Mass text. Rich in elaborate contrapuntal interweaving and with a duration of more than one hour, it reveals Haydn the opera composer. The present recording of a concert, performed in 1982 in the Ottobeuren Basilica with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and Choir under the baton of Rafael Kubelík, is still considered a reference recording of the work.

Niccolò Jommelli’s Mass in D major and his Te Deum were both written during his time at Charles Eugene’s Württemberg court, where he is said to have held the highest paid musician post in Europe. The Württemberg court loved French music and at the same time the virtuoso Mannheim school. These, together with Jommelli’s Italian roots, also shaped the composer’s stylistically diverse sacred oeuvre. The Te Deum, with a brief length of not even a quarter of an hour, was frequently played even up until the early 19th century.

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