Campra : Messe de Requiem - Graduel (Philippe Herreweghe / Collegium Vocale, Gent)

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André Campra (1660~1744)

- Messe de Requiem, 1722 -

3. Graduel


John Elwes (tenor)
Stephen Varcoe (bass)

La Chapelle Royale
Collegium Vocale, Gent
Philippe Herreweghe (conductor)


A. Campra

André Campra (1660-1744), a French composer. He occupied a leading position in French music of the early 18th century. After an earlier career in Toulon and Toulouse, he moved to Paris, where he became maître de musique at Notre Dame and finally won distinction in the opera-house, composing for the Académie Royale de Musique and employed also by the chapelle royale.

Campra's first success in the theatre came in 1697 with L'Europe galante, an opéra-ballet with entrées for France, Spain, Italy and Turkey. He continued to write opéra-ballets and tragédies lyriques, generally to be staged at the Paris Opéra. Campra wrote a number of motets and, in 1722, a setting of the requiem mass.


Messe de Requiem

For soli soprano, tenor,(alto) TBarB, choir ST(A)TBarB, 2 Fl, 2 Vl, 2 Va, Bass (Vocal). The Requiem was written during Campra's tenure as Kapellmeister at the Cathedral in Paris as a work commissioned to commemorate the deceased Archbishop of Paris. Towards the end of the 18th century the tradition of performing parts of Campra's Requiem at funerals or memorial services emerged in the South of France: proofs of this practice as late as 1805 have been documented. Remarkable is the scoring of the work; it calls for four sets of musicians: a Grand Choeur with five voices, a Petit Chœur with two to three voices, three vocal soloists as well as an instrumental group known as a "symphony."

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[MrJohnpiano]

Is this available on CD?



[adrianofsaraujo]

This is 100% catholic!!!

[rosbeiaard2010]

dear molealto, use the Latin à la Française was not always in use. This is a voluntary fraud of the French. A la Française was only used at the French court of Louis XIV because he was in a serious quarrel with Rome

[molealto]

Shame Varcoe isn't pronouncing the Latin a la Francaise...

[giloubreizh]

la quiétude transparaît dans ce chant.