Campra: Messe de Requiem

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Gardiner's architectural aspirations are lost on Campra's rather insubstantial music, though ebullience and drama go some way to compensate. — BBC Music Magazine, October 2007, 5 out of 5 stars

Release Date: 20th Aug 2007
Catalogue No: 2564698480
Label: Warner Classics
Length: 51 minutes

Campra: Messe des morts [Requiem]

Work length51:59

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Dinah Harris (soprano), Jean-Claude Orliac (tenor), Judith Nelson (soprano), Stephen Roberts (bass), Wynford Evans (tenor), Stephen Harris (bass)
Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists
Sir John Eliot Gardiner

I Introït

Track length7:52

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II Kyrie

Track length6:22

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III Graduel

Track length6:51

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IV Offertoire

Track length11:19

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V Sanctus

Track length4:02

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VI Agnus Dei

Track length6:58

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VII Post communion

Track length8:35

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It is not known when or for what occasion Campra composed his Messe de Requiem, although the date 1722 is generally accepted as the most accurate. The structure of the Mass is by no means typical, there is no "Dies Irae", and where another composer might have set the choir blazing in the "Sanctus", Campra writes a graceful pastoral with flutes. The “Post-Communion” momentarily rejoices and settles on major-key fade out, only to return to the minor at the last minute. There is little in the way of counterpoint or convention, making this mass truly unique and highly underrated.

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October 2007

Gardiner's architectural aspirations are lost on Campra's rather insubstantial music, though ebullience and drama go some way to compensate.

Campra: Messe de Requiem

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