Rossini: Messa di Gloria Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia & Antonio Pappano

• Gioacchino Rossini (1792 - 1868): Messa di Gloria:
• 1Rossini: Messa di Gloria: I. Kyrie eleison03:51
• 2Rossini: Messa di Gloria: II. Christe eleison03:11
• 3Rossini: Messa di Gloria: III. Kyrie eleison03:16
• 4Rossini: Messa di Gloria: IV. Gloria in excelsis Deo05:52
• 5Rossini: Messa di Gloria: V. Laudamus te07:43
• 6Rossini: Messa di Gloria: VI. Gratias agimus tibi08:15
• 7Rossini: Messa di Gloria: VII. Domine Deus06:01
• 8Rossini: Messa di Gloria: VIII. Qui tollis peccata mundi07:34
• 9Rossini: Messa di Gloria: IX. Qui sedes ad dexteram Patris02:55
• 10Rossini: Messa di Gloria: X. Quoniam tu solus Sanctus07:39
• 11Rossini: Messa di Gloria: XI. Cum Sancto Spiritu04:44
• Total Runtime01:01:01

Info for Rossini: Messa di Gloria

While his Stabat Mater, Small Solemn Mass (in the original chamber version or in the version with orchestra) is regularly recorded, Rossini's Messa di Gloria remains curiously far off the discographic radar: Neville Marriner had it engraved for Philips thirty years ago and nothing or almost nothing since.

Is this ostracism due to the fact that this work, composed in Naples in 1820, was long considered lost before it was rediscovered in the 1970s? Or because it does not contain all the usual parts of a mass, but three Kyrie and six Gloria (hence the title)? Or finally - as some said at the time - because it is not religious enough? Not to say too close to opera, since Rossini was accused of reusing excerpts from the lyrical works he was composing at the same time. We remember that the same thing was said a few years later about Verdi's Requiem, which was described as an opera in a house dress....

It really doesn't matter! The music is beautifully written, even jubilant, and it will delight lovers of Italian romantic bel canto. Most importantly, it is performed here with verve and rigour by Antonio Pappano, leading his troops from the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome, and by an excellent cast of soloists, including none other than Lawrence Brownlee and Michael Spyres for the tenor parts.

"Pappano's orchestra of the Accademia di Santa Cecilia and its choir once again demonstrate their high standard of quality and, under the careful direction of their chief conductor, make music with great seriousness and equal competence. The work and its interpretation presented here have a special magic, the mixture of operatic style with sacred character has its special charm, it is surprising that this great work is not heard more often. This recording is indeed absolutely recommendable!" (Peter Sommeregger, klassik-begeistert.de)

Eleonora Buratto, soprano
Teresa Iervolino, contralto
Lawrence Brownlee, tenor
Michael Spyres, tenor
Carlo Lepore, bass
Orchestra e Coro dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
Antonio Pappano, conductor

The Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
is one of the oldest musical institutions in the world. Officially founded in 1585, it has evolved over the centuries from an organization of largely "local" musicians to a modern academy and symphonic concert organization of international repute. Uniting an academic body of 100 of the most illustrious exponents of culture and music with a symphonic orchestra and chorus that are among the most internationally renowned, the Accademia carries out professional musical training and conserves an extremely rich historical patrimony, thus reflecting its own multi-century history.

Antonio Pappano
Currently Music director of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden and the Orchestra of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome, Antonio Pappano was born in London of Italian parents. At the age of 13 he moved with his family to the United States, where he continued his studies in piano, composition and conducting. Work as a repetiteur and assistant conductor rapidly led to his engagement in theatres throughout the world: New York City Opera, Gran Teatro del Liceu (Barcelona), Frankfurt Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago and the Bayreuth Festival, where he was assistant to Daniel Barenboim for Tristan und Isolde, Parsifal and the Der Ring des Nibelungen.

In 1987 Pappano made his debut as an opera conductor with La Bohème at Den Norske Opera in Oslo and was appointed Music Director there in 1990. During this period, he also made his conducting debuts at Covent Garden (La Bohème, June 1990), English National Opera, San Francisco Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Théâtre du Châtelet and Berlin Staatsoper.

At the age of 32 Pappano was named Music Director of the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie and remained in this post for ten years. In 1993, Pappano made a notable debut at the Vienna Staatsoper, replacing Christoph von Dohnànyi at the last minute in a new production of Wagner’s Siegfried, for which he received unanimous acclaim. He made his debut at the Metropolitan Opera, New York, in 1997 with a new production of Eugene Onegin and in 1999 at the Bayreuth Festspiele conducting a new production of Lohengrin. From 1997 – 99 he was Principal Guest Conductor of the Israel Phiharmonic Orchestra.

Pappano has also conducted the Chicago Symphony, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Boston Symphony, the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, the London Symphony Orchestra, the Philharmonia Orchestra, the Vienna Philharmonic, the Münchner Philharmonie, the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and the Orchestra de Paris.

He has recorded Don Carlo for EMI Classics (CD and DVD, which received the “Performance of Year Award” from Gramophone) as well as La Bohème, Guillaume Tell, La Rondine (awarded Best Recording of the Year by Gramophone Magazine), Il Trittico, Massenet’s Werther and Manon, Madama Butterfly, Tosca, Il Trovatore, Tristan und Isolde and the Verdi Requiem. His orchestral recordings with the orchestra of Santa Cecilia include Tchaikovsky Symphonies 4, 5 & 6 and Respighi’s Roman Trilogy, Rossini’s Stabat Mater (“Editor’s Choice Award” from Gramophone) and he has also partnered Hanna Chang, Leif Ove Andsnes and Maxim Vengerov in concerto recordings and Ian Bostridge in recital. Antonio Pappano’s Roman orchestra, the Academia di Santa Cecilia, have won Critics’ Choice at the Classical BRIT Awards for their recording of the Verdi Requiem. A more complete discography can be found on the IMG Artists website.

He was awarded ‘Artist of the Year 2000’ by Gramophone, the 2003 Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Opera and the Royal Philharmonic Society Music Award 2004. In May 2012 Antonio Pappano was made a Cavaliere di Gran Croce by of the Republic of Italy. He was recently awarded the Bruno Walter prize by the Académie du Disque Lyrique in Paris.

In recent seasons, Antonio Pappano made his operatic debut at the Salzburg Festival (Don Carlo) and the Teatro alla Scala (Les Troyens) as well as new productions of Parsifal, Les Vêpres Siciliennes and Manon Lescaut at the Royal Opera House.

This coming season, he conducts both the London Symphony Orchestra and the Accademia di Santa Cecilia on tours in Europe and Japan. At the Royal Opera House, he conducts new productions of Guillaume Tell and King Roger.

In January 2012 Antonio Pappano received a Knighthood for his services to music.

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