Messe de Requiem
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ANDRE CAMPRA
Messe de Requiem
Elisabeth Baudry, Monique Zanetti, Josep Benet, John Elwes & Steven Varcoe / La Chapelle Royale, Philippe Herreweghe
[ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD ]
Release Date: Friday 10 January 2014
This item is currently out of stock. It may take 6 or more weeks to obtain from when you place your order as this is a specialist product.
This French Baroque icon from the early days of harmonia mundi [around 1986? Ed] has been 'download only' for some years and we are delighted that Herreweghe's benchmark Campra 'Requiem' is now reissued at mid price, on hm gold, due to popular demand.
"This beautiful recording makes a most welcome return to the catalogue. Campra has been hailed by some as the missing link between Lully and Rameau, and he spent much of his career shuffling between the theatre and the church, trying to please both. That, perhaps, explains the theatricality of his Requiem Mass. Herreweghe's direction is supple and responsive. He keeps the music always moving forward, and not only is he fully aware of the way it is pulled towards both religion and the opera house, but he does a very good job of steering an adroit course between the two." (MusicWeb)
