Berlioz: Grande Messe des Morts, Op. 5 / Gardner, Bergen Philharmonic

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Chandos
Release Date
October 5, 2018
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      BERLIOZ, HECTOR
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Bergen Philharmonic Choir
    • PERFORMER
      Todenes, Collegium Musicum Kor, Kor, Royal Northern College Of Music Choi
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      October 05, 2018
    • UPC
      095115521922
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      CHSA 5219
    • LABEL
      Chandos
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Chamber Music & Recitals
    Works ⌄

    1. Requiem et Kyrie

      Composer: Hector Berlioz

      Ensemble: Collegiûm Mûsicûm Bergen Choir, Edvard Grieg Kor, Royal Northern College of Music Chorus, Bergen Philharmonic Choir, members Bergen Philharmonic Youth Orchestra, Bergen Filharmoniske Orkester

      Conductor: Edward Gardner

    2. Dies irae

      Composer: Hector Berlioz

      Ensemble: Collegiûm Mûsicûm Bergen Choir, Edvard Grieg Kor, Royal Northern College of Music Chorus, Bergen Philharmonic Choir, Eikanger-Bjørsvik Band, members Bergen Philharmonic Youth Orchestra, Bergen Filharmoniske Orkester

      Conductor: Edward Gardner

    3. Quid sum miser

      Composer: Hector Berlioz

      Ensemble: Collegiûm Mûsicûm Bergen Choir, Edvard Grieg Kor, Royal Northern College of Music Chorus, Bergen Philharmonic Choir, members Bergen Philharmonic Youth Orchestra, Bergen Filharmoniske Orkester

      Conductor: Edward Gardner

    4. Rex tremendae

      Composer: Hector Berlioz

      Ensemble: Collegiûm Mûsicûm Bergen Choir, Edvard Grieg Kor, Royal Northern College of Music Chorus, Bergen Philharmonic Choir, Eikanger-Bjørsvik Band, members Bergen Philharmonic Youth Orchestra, Bergen Filharmoniske Orkester

      Conductor: Edward Gardner

    5. Quaerens me

      Composer: Hector Berlioz

      Ensemble: Collegiûm Mûsicûm Bergen Choir, Edvard Grieg Kor, Royal Northern College of Music Chorus, Bergen Philharmonic Choir

    6. Lacrimosa

      Composer: Hector Berlioz

      Ensemble: Collegiûm Mûsicûm Bergen Choir, Edvard Grieg Kor, Royal Northern College of Music Chorus, Bergen Philharmonic Choir, Eikanger-Bjørsvik Band, members Bergen Philharmonic Youth Orchestra, Bergen Filharmoniske Orkester

      Conductor: Edward Gardner

    7. Offertoire

      Composer: Hector Berlioz

      Ensemble: Collegiûm Mûsicûm Bergen Choir, Edvard Grieg Kor, Royal Northern College of Music Chorus, Bergen Philharmonic Choir, members Bergen Philharmonic Youth Orchestra, Bergen Filharmoniske Orkester

      Conductor: Edward Gardner

    8. Hostias

      Composer: Hector Berlioz

      Ensemble: Collegiûm Mûsicûm Bergen Choir, Edvard Grieg Kor, Royal Northern College of Music Chorus, Bergen Philharmonic Choir, Eikanger-Bjørsvik Band, members Bergen Philharmonic Youth Orchestra, Bergen Filharmoniske Orkester

      Conductor: Edward Gardner

    9. Sanctus

      Composer: Hector Berlioz

      Ensemble: Collegiûm Mûsicûm Bergen Choir, Edvard Grieg Kor, Royal Northern College of Music Chorus, Bergen Philharmonic Choir, members Bergen Philharmonic Youth Orchestra, Bergen Filharmoniske Orkester

      Performer: Bror Magnus Tødenes

      Conductor: Edward Gardner

    10. Agnus Dei

      Composer: Hector Berlioz

      Ensemble: Collegiûm Mûsicûm Bergen Choir, Edvard Grieg Kor, Royal Northern College of Music Chorus, Bergen Philharmonic Choir, Eikanger-Bjørsvik Band, members Bergen Philharmonic Youth Orchestra, Bergen Filharmoniske Orkester

      Conductor: Edward Gardner


With this surround-sound recording of Berlioz’s Requiem, Edward Gardner and the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra tackle the infinite and the immeasurable.

All the grandiose, striking beauty of the Requiem’s large-scale ceremonial is encapsulated by first-class vocal and orchestral forces, fully utilising the spatial possibilities of Grieghallen in Bergen. The matching of space and sonority was one of Berlioz’s lasting obsessions, one experience in St Paul’s Cathedral in London throwing Berlioz into a delirium of emotion from which he took days to recover. His Grande Messe des morts, notorious for its requirement of four brass bands in addition to a large orchestra and chorus, taken here from live concerts, has often been seen as one of the most emotionally powerful works of its kind.

Setting a solemn and austere, even ascetic text, the music is not that of an orthodox believer but of a visionary, inspired by the dramatic implications of death and judgement.