Frankfurt Radio Symphony - Schmitt: La Tragedie de Salome & Chant elegiaque - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Album Tracks 1. Alta Trinita Beata 2. GL D Dig, Du Kristi Brud 3. Bereden V G F R Herran 4. Den Signade Dag 5. Jungfru Maria Till Betlehem Gick 6. Brudmarsch 7. Den Signade Dag 8. F Bodpsalm 9. Polska FR N G Strikland 10. Polska FR N R Ttvik 11. Nu Haver Denna Dag Sin Nde N TT 12. Byggnan 13. Brudmarsch Fran Jamtland 14. Sancta Maria 15. Ave Maris Stella 16. Jag Sjunger Om Jungfrun 17. Nova 18. Marias Lovs NG 19. Ave Maris Stella 20. K RSB RSTR Det 21. Josef Timmerman (Pastoral) 22. Ave Maris Stella 23. Maria Satt Och Sang 24. Recitation Ur Johannes 19 25. Maria Gick P Vandring 26. Recitation Ur Birgittas Uppenbarelser, 1492 27. Ave Maris Stella

The splendour of Mozart's motet Exsultate, jubilate stands out in a repertoire that has for too long remained in the shadows the magnificent output of church music composed in 18th-century Milan, the city in which Mozart, then not even 17 years old, wrote his first masterpiece of sacred music precisely 250 years ago. The virtuosity and melodic beauty of that score, conceived for the celebrated castrato Venanzio Rauzzini, can finally be heard alongside the brilliant works - for soloists and choir, in both the stile antico and the new modern manner - composed for the exacting noble patrons of the capital of Austrian Lombardy by musicians of great refinement and talent names that include the universally renowned Johann Christian Bach, Giovanni Andrea Fioroni, the then maestro di cappella of the cathedral, and the hitherto obscure Melchiorre Chiesa. Album Tracks 1. Dixit Dominus in D Major, w E15 (For Satb Solo, Satb Choir and Orchestra) 2. Misericordias Domini, KV 222 (Offertorium for Satb Choir, Strings and Continuo) 3. Exsultate, Jubilate KV 165 (Motet for Soprano and Orchestra in F Major) 4. O Sacrum Convivium (Motet for Satb Choir) 5. Caelo Tonanti (Motet for Alto and Orchestra in a Major) 6. Exultavit Spiritus Meus (Ambrosian Chant) 7. Magnificat in C Major, w E22 (For Satb Solo, Satb Choir and Orchestra)

No fewer than four major composers - Faure, Debussy, Schoenberg and Sibelius - were inspired by Maurice Maeterlink's play Pelleas et Melisande (1892). Given that we celebrate anniversaries of Faure and Schoenberg in 2024, Paavo Jarvi here offers his reading of their settings of Pelleas et Melisande with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony, whose Music Director he was for almost ten years. Debussy was so much involved with his own operatic setting of Pelleas et Melisande that the famous English actress Mrs. Patrick Campbell turned to Gabriel Faure to write incidental music for the play; this music then became an orchestral suite in four movements that is considered to be Faure's symphonic masterpiece. Schoenberg followed advice given by his much-admired role model Richard Strauss in 1902 and composed his own symphonic poem based on Pelleas et Melisande. It's complex combinations of musical motifs and the rich fabric of the large-scale orchestra not only captivate us but also reveal his own vision of this archaic and yet universal story. Album Tracks 1. Pelleas und Melisande, Op. 5~I. Die Achtel ein wenig bewegt - zögernd 2. Pelleas und Melisande, Op. 5~II. Heftig 3. Pelleas und Melisande, Op. 5~III. Lebhaft 4. Pelleas und Melisande, Op. 5~IV. Sehr rasch 5. Pelleas und Melisande, Op. 5~V. Ein wenig bewegt 6. Pelleas und Melisande, Op. 5~VI. Langsam 7. Pelleas und Melisande, Op. 5~VII. Ein wenig bewegter 8. Pelleas und Melisande, Op. 5~Sehr Langsam 9. Pelleas und Melisande, Op. 5~IX. Etwas bewegt 10. Pelleas und Melisande, Op. 5~X. In gehender Bewegung 11. Pelleas und Melisande, Op. 5~XI. Breit 12. Pelléas et Mélisande, Op. 80~I. Prélude. Quasi adagio 13. Pelléas et Mélisande, Op. 80~II. Fileuse. Andantino quasi Allegretto 14. Pelléas et Mélisande, Op. 80~III. Sicilienne. Allegretto molto moderato 15. Pelléas et Mélisande, Op. 80~La mort de Mél