John Eliot Gardiner, Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, Monteverdi Choir - Hector Berlioz: Messe solennelle (1994)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 283 Mb | Total time: 61:18 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Philips | # 442 137-2 | Recorded: 1993
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 283 Mb | Total time: 61:18 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Philips | # 442 137-2 | Recorded: 1993
The discovery of any "new" large-scale work by Berlioz is bound to kick up excitement in the music world. So it was in 1992 when the manuscript of the long-lost Solemn Mass, composed in 1824, when Berlioz was 20, was unearthed by a Belgian choirmaster in Antwerp. A scholarly edition was quickly prepared, and John Eliot Gardiner gave the first series of performances in five European cities in 1993. It is from one of those live performances, in London's Westminster Cathedral, that this world-premiere recording derives.