Gounod+Rossini - Messes Solennelles (2CD)[c19](EMI)[OGG][twistle]

Gounod+Rossini - Messes Solennelles [c19](EMI)[OGG q9][twistle]

Charles Gounod (1818-1893) : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gounod
Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868 ) : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rossini
Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verdi

A pair of masses by Gounod and Rossini, plus Verdi's Te Deum.

The Gounod is wonderfully over-the-top. There is a lot of saccharine sweetness to it, almost like much modern film music. Its none the worse for it, and was apparently hugely popular in his time.

Rossini's mass is the opposite, being camp rather than grand, with the soloists and choir being accompanied by a harmonium (!) and a pair of pianos. Whereas the Gounod is primarily singing by a chorus with passages for soloist, the Rossini reverses this, and is therefore far more "operatic" in style.

I'm not particularly familiar with, or keen on, the Verdi on the second CD, but each to their own :)
The two logged defects on CD2 are minor (99.9% accurate) and are inaudible.

EAC OGG (aoTuV q9)
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EMI Spiritus 5658482 (2CD)

Gounod - Messe Solennelle de Sainte Cecile
Pilar Lorengar (soprano) / Heinz Hoppe (tenor) / Franz Crass (bass)
Henriette Puig-Roget (organ)
Choeurs Rene Duclos
Orchestre de la Societe des concerts du Conservatoire Paris
Jean-Claude Hartemann (cond.)

Rossini - Petite Messe Solennelle
Lucia Popp (soprano) / Brigitte Fassbaender (mezzo)
Nicolai Gedda (tenor) / Dimitri Kavrakos (bass)
Katia & Marielle Labeque (pianos) / David Briggs (harmonium)
Choir of King's College, Cambridge
Stephen Cleobury (cond.)

Verdi - Te Deum
Arleen Auger (soprano)
Swedish Radio Choir & Stockholm Chamber Orchestra
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Riccarado Muti (cond.)

CD 1 : http://www.freedb.org/freedb/classical/c610cd0d
1. Gounod - Messe Solennelle de Sainte Cecile - 01 Kyrie - 4:45
2. Gounod - Messe Solennelle de Sainte Cecile - 02 Gloria - 9:24
3. Gounod - Messe Solennelle de Sainte Cecile - 03 Credo - 11:25
4. Gounod - Messe Solennelle de Sainte Cecile - 04 Offertorium - 2:39
5. Gounod - Messe Solennelle de Sainte Cecile - 05 Sanctus - 5:15
6. Gounod - Messe Solennelle de Sainte Cecile - 06 Benedictus - 3:14
7. Gounod - Messe Solennelle de Sainte Cecile - 07 Agnus Dei - 4:50
8. Gounod - Messe Solennelle de Sainte Cecile - 08 Domine salvum fac - 3:02
9. Rossini - Petite Messe Solennelle - 01 Kyrie - 7:18
10. Rossini - Petite Messe Solennelle - 02 Gloria in Excelsis Deo - 2:48
11. Rossini - Petite Messe Solennelle - 03 Gratias agimus tibi - 4:43
12. Rossini - Petite Messe Solennelle - 04 Domine Deus - 5:38
13. Rossini - Petite Messe Solennelle - 05 Qui tollis peccata mundi - 6:32
Tracks: 13 Total Time: 71:33


CD 2 : http://www.freedb.org/freedb/classical/8b11850a
1. Rossini - Petite Messe Solennelle - 06 Quoniam - 7:52
2. Rossini - Petite Messe Solennelle - 07 Cum Sancto Spiritu - 6:40
3. Rossini - Petite Messe Solennelle - 08 Credo in unum Deum - 4:22
4. Rossini - Petite Messe Solennelle - 09 Crucifixus - 3:00
5. Rossini - Petite Messe Solennelle - 10 Et resurrexit - 9:41
6. Rossini - Petite Messe Solennelle - 11 Prelude religieux - 7:55
7. Rossini - Petite Messe Solennelle - 12 Sanctus - 4:40
8. Rossini - Petite Messe Solennelle - 13 O Salutaris - 5:56
9. Rossini - Petite Messe Solennelle - 14 Agnus Dei - 8:29
10. Verdi - Te Deum 'Quattro Pezzi Sacri' - 16:05
Tracks: 10 Total Time: 74:40

Tracks: 23
Total Time: 2:26:31
Date (compilation release) : 1986
Date : 1963 (Rossini) / 1985 (Gounod) / 1983 (Verdi)

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