Neville Marriner, Academy of St Martin in the Fields - Gioacchino Rossini: Messa di Gloria (1992)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 261 Mb | Total time: 58:33 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Philips | # 434 132-2 | Recorded: 1992
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 261 Mb | Total time: 58:33 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Philips | # 434 132-2 | Recorded: 1992
Gioachino Rossini's Messa di Gloria of 1821, right in the middle of the years when he ruled the operatic scene, has been less often recorded than the free-spirited and personal Stabat Mater of his old age. Various reasons could be advanced for this comparative neglect. Stacked up against Rossini's operas of the period it's something of a mixed bag. Some of it is intensely operatic, but it also looks back to the past with its giant contrapuntal "Cum sancto spiritu" (the mass consists of a Kyrie and Gloria). From the point of view of the cult of individual Romantic genius, a major problem is that Rossini may have had a collaborator on the work, one Pietro Raimondi, who honed some of the more polyphonic passages.