Special offer. Cavalli: Missa 1660
Grande messe vénitienne pour la paix franco-espagnole de Louis XIV
Galilei Consort, Benjamin Chénier
Here and there are reminders that Cavalli was above all a composer of opera, And there’s the rub…Some operatic extravagance would be welcome here, the male alto soloists being particularly reticent…The...
Special offer. Cavalli: Missa 1660
Grande messe vénitienne pour la paix franco-espagnole de Louis XIV
Galilei Consort, Benjamin Chénier
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Here and there are reminders that Cavalli was above all a composer of opera, And there’s the rub…Some operatic extravagance would be welcome here, the male alto soloists being particularly reticent…The...
About
Mazarin managed to sign the Treaty of Paris which validates the future Peace of the Pyrenees, and therefore the marriage of Louis XIV with the Infanta of Spain in 1660. In the context of these celebrations, the French ambassador in Venice commissions a mass from Cavalli, the greatest composer of his time. He thus composed this sumptuous Missa, performed in January 1660 in the Basilica of San Giovanni e Paulo and brought together the best voices and most famous musicians around viols, violins, cornets and trumpets in a spatialisation in the Venetian manner. In this recording, Benjamin Chénier takes on this chef d'oeuvre which celebrates France and Louis XIV with brilliant soloists and a strategy of spatialisation in the Royal Chapel which recreates the splendid sound of 1660.
Contents and tracklist
- Benjamin Chénier, Galilei Consort
- Benjamin Chénier, Galilei Consort
- Benjamin Chénier, Galilei Consort
- Benjamin Chénier, Galilei Consort
- Paulin Bündgen, Anne Magouët, Benjamin Chénier, Galilei Consort
- Benjamin Chénier, Galilei Consort
- Benjamin Chénier, Galilei Consort
- Benjamin Chénier, Galilei Consort
- Benjamin Chénier, Galilei Consort
- Benjamin Chénier, Galilei Consort
- Renaud Delaigue, Vincent Bouchot, Paulin Bündgen, Benjamin Chénier, Galilei Consort
- Benjamin Chénier, Galilei Consort
- Benjamin Chénier, Galilei Consort
Awards and reviews
May 2019
Here and there are reminders that Cavalli was above all a composer of opera, And there’s the rub…Some operatic extravagance would be welcome here, the male alto soloists being particularly reticent…The cornetts and trombones sound splendid, though, and the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.