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John Nelson conducts Berlioz's Requiem : 150th anniversary of Berlioz's death / Idéale Audience, Mezzo present ; directed by Sébastien Glas.
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- Latin
- Subjects (All):
- Requiems.
- Genre:
- Requiems.
- Filmed performances.
- Internet videos
- Internet videos.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 video file (1 hr., 31 min., 27 sec.)) : sound, color.
- Other Title:
- Screen title: Hector Berlioz : Grande messe des morts, Op. 5 (Requiem)
- Grande messe des morts, Op. 5 (Requiem)
- Place of Publication:
- [Paris, France] : Idéale Audience, 2019.
- Language Note:
- Sung in Latin.
- System Details:
- digital
- video file
- Summary:
- "If someone was to threaten me with the burning of my entire œuvre except for one piece, it's the Grande Messe des morts that I would ask to be saved." To mark the 150th anniversary of Berlioz's death, John Nelson conducts the Romantic composer's majestic Requiem at London's St. Paul's Cathedral. A prodigious and radical composer, Hector Berlioz wrote this monumental work in three weeks as a commission from the French Minister of the Interior, who asked for a musical homage for the fallen of the 1830 revolution. Writing for a large orchestra and choir, one might have expected Berlioz to produce an over-sized and bombastic work but, aside from a number of grandiose passages, the piece is muted and meditative. Richly colorful yet mysterious, the Messe pour les Morts delivered its composer a decisive critical success.
- Contents:
- Grande Messe des morts, Op. 5 / Hector Berlioz.
- Participant:
- Michael Spyres, tenor ; Philharmonia Orchestra, Philharmonia Chorus, London Philharmonic Choir ; John Nelson, conductor.
- Notes:
- Filmed 2019 St. Paul's Cathedral (London)
- Vendor-supplied metadata.
- Contains:
- Container of: Berlioz, Hector, 1803-1869. Grande Messe des morts.
- OCLC:
- 1190903277
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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