Hector Berlioz - Requiem - Grosse Totenmesse flac album

This is obviously a private, but official release for the members of the chorus and their families.

Berlioz: Große Totenmesse, O. Sir Colin Davis Conductor. CDs: 2 Tracks: 10 Length: 1:28:39. CD 1 of 2. Hector Berlioz Composer. Requiem Mass, . 5, O. Work.

The Grande Messe des morts (or Requiem), Op. 5, by Hector Berlioz was composed in 1837. The Grande Messe des Morts is one of Berlioz's best-known works, with a tremendous orchestration of woodwind and brass instruments, including four antiphonal offstage brass ensembles. The work derives its text from the traditional Latin Requiem Mass. It has a duration of approximately ninety minutes, although there are faster recordings of under seventy-five minutes.

Op. 5. Breitkopf & Härtels Partitur-Bibliothek Hector Berlioz Geistliche Gesangwerke. Op. Published by Breitkopf & Härtels (1900) pl. n.

With so many great recorded performances of Berlioz 's Requiem on the market, it may be hard to consider this live performance among the very greatest. But conductor Colin Davis has long been acknowledged to be one of the great living Berlioz interpreters, and he brings a lifetime of intimacy and affection to the performance

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5 (or Requiem) by Hector Berlioz was composed in 1837. The "Grande Messe des Morts" is one of Berlioz's best-known works, with a tremendous orchestration of woodwind and brass instruments, including four antiphonal brass ensembles placed at the corners of the concert stage.

Melbourne Intervarsity Choral Festival: 29 June - 15 July 2012. Australian Intervarsity Choral Festival Choir. Louis Hector Berlioz (11th December 1803–8th March 1869) was a French Romantic composer best known for the Symphonie fantastique, first performed in 1830, and for his Requiem - Grande messe des morts - of 1837, with its tremendous resources that include four antiphonal brass choirs. Berlioz was born in France at La Côte-Saint-André in the département of Isère, between Lyon and Grenoble. His father was a physician, and young Hector was sent to Paris to study medicine at the age of eighteen.