Puccini: Messa di Gloria

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Label
BR Klassik
Release Date
November 15, 2024
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Giacomo Puccini
    • PERFORMER
      Munich Radio Orchestra, Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Tomislav Muzek, George Petean
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      November 15, 2024
    • UPC
      4035719003543
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      BRK900354
    • LABEL
      BR Klassik
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Orchestral & Symphonic
    Works ⌄

    1. Kyrie

      Composer: Giacomo Puccini

      Ensemble: Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Münchner Rundfunkorchester

      Conductor: Ivan Repušić

    2. Gloria: Gloria in excelsis Deo

      Composer: Giacomo Puccini

      Ensemble: Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Münchner Rundfunkorchester

      Conductor: Ivan Repušić

    3. Gloria: Gratias agimus tibi

      Composer: Giacomo Puccini

      Ensemble: Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Münchner Rundfunkorchester

      Performer: Tomislav Mužek

      Conductor: Ivan Repušić

    4. Gloria: Qui tollis peccata mundi

      Composer: Giacomo Puccini

      Ensemble: Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Münchner Rundfunkorchester

      Conductor: Ivan Repušić

    5. Gloria: Quoniam tu solus Sanctus

      Composer: Giacomo Puccini

      Ensemble: Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Münchner Rundfunkorchester

      Conductor: Ivan Repušić

    6. Gloria: Cum Sancto Spiritu in gloria Dei Patris

      Composer: Giacomo Puccini

      Ensemble: Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Münchner Rundfunkorchester

      Conductor: Ivan Repušić

    7. Credo: Credo in unum Deum

      Composer: Giacomo Puccini

      Ensemble: Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Münchner Rundfunkorchester

      Conductor: Ivan Repušić

    8. Credo: Et incarnatus est

      Composer: Giacomo Puccini

      Ensemble: Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Münchner Rundfunkorchester

      Performer: Tomislav Mužek

      Conductor: Ivan Repušić

    9. Credo: Crucifuxus etiam pro nobis

      Composer: Giacomo Puccini

      Ensemble: Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Münchner Rundfunkorchester

      Performer: George Petean

      Conductor: Ivan Repušić

    10. Credo: Et resurrexit tertia die

      Composer: Giacomo Puccini

      Ensemble: Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Münchner Rundfunkorchester

      Conductor: Ivan Repušić

    11. Sanctus

      Composer: Giacomo Puccini

      Ensemble: Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Münchner Rundfunkorchester

      Conductor: Ivan Repušić

    12. Benedictus

      Composer: Giacomo Puccini

      Ensemble: Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Münchner Rundfunkorchester

      Performer: George Petean

      Conductor: Ivan Repušić

    13. Agnus Dei

      Composer: Giacomo Puccini

      Ensemble: Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Münchner Rundfunkorchester

      Performer: Tomislav Mužek, George Petean

      Conductor: Ivan Repušić

    14. Preludio Sinfonico

      Composer: Giacomo Puccini

      Ensemble: Münchner Rundfunkorchester

      Conductor: Ivan Repušić

    15. Crisantemi (arr. L. Drew for string orchestra)

      Composer: Giacomo Puccini

      Ensemble: Münchner Rundfunkorchester

      Conductor: Ivan Repušić


Puccini's "Messa di Gloria" is one of the most popular settings of the Latin Mass, and is also featured on many concert programmes in the Puccini Year of 2024. The musical quality, energy and freshness of this youthful work ensured it's ever-growing popularity after it's rediscovery in the early 1950s. The composer even went on to quote some of the melodies in his famous operas, notably "Manon Lescaut". The "Messa di Gloria" was most recently performed on June 27, 2024 in the Herz-Jesu-Kirche in Munich by the Bavarian Radio Chorus and the Munchner Rundfunkorchester under it's chief conductor Ivan Repusic. To mark the 100th anniversary of the death of the great Italian composer, BR-KLASSIK is now presenting the live recording of this outstanding concert on CD. Giacomo Puccini wrote his "Messa a quattro voci con orchestra" ("Mass for Four Voices with Orchestra") between 1878 and 1880 as the final thesis of his music studies in his hometown of Lucca. The first preparatory work was done when he was just eighteen, and the young composer was only 21 when the work was first performed on July 12, 1880. The Mass remained unpublished during his lifetime but became immensely popular after it's rediscovery in the early 1950s. However, in the first printed edition and in later performances it was inaccurately described as a "Messa di Gloria", a term that in fact refers to a (usually shorter) composition consisting only of Kyrie and Gloria; Puccini's Mass is in fact a full work, the complete setting of the Latin Ordinary with Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus/Benedictus and Agnus Dei. Puccini had begun his work on the Credo as early as 1878. In the "Messa di Gloria", the choir takes centre stage with increasingly beautiful melodies; the solo parts for tenor and baritone are sung by Tomislav Muzek and George Petean. The approximately 45-minute-long work is complemented on this CD by Puccini's orchestral works "Preludio sinfonico" and "Crisantemi" - the latter in an arrangement for string orchestra by Lucas Drew. (Studio recordings from February 2023.)