André Campra was a French composer and conductor. Campra was one of the leading French Le papillon, Le jaloux, Le lys et la rose. Sacred works. Nisi Dominus (); Requiem (after ); Motets for the royal chapel (–) . Find album reviews, stream songs, credits and award information for André Campra: Messe de Requiem – Philippe Herreweghe on AllMusic – André Campra, Jean-Claude Malgoire, Gilles Ragon, Dominique Visse, Peter Harvey, La Grande Écurie et La Chambre du Roy – Campra – Requiem ~ Miserere.
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Retrieved from ” https: He also wrote three books of cantatas as well as religious music, including a requiem.
Messe de Requiem (Campra, André)
In point of fact much of it, both for the church and for the stage, is noteworthy and this Messe de Mort or Requiem Mass afford ample proof. Retrieved 12 June Well, since I’ll be dead and buried by the year let alonewhen such junketings could take place, I might as well make the most of this welcome, if modest, enthusiasm for his music. Campra added violins to the performance of sacred music at the Paris cathedral, a controversial innovation in an era when they were considered street instruments.
The lovely, lyrical soprano duet of the latter, indeed, is far removed from the sentiment of the overall text, instead creating a moment of crystal clear musical light in their brief gavotte.
Skip to main content. By he had obtained all of the usual prestigious posts but retreated back into composing sacred music as the French critics targeted him more frequently. Varcoe’s contribution I thought outstanding in the Sanctus but throughout the solo team is a strong one. The all-time greats Read about the artists who changed the world of classical music.
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The orchestra, too, nake a strong contribution with several instances of effective woodwind playing. Conductor Schneebeli knows how to provide the sonorous blend of chorus and string orchestra augmented by a pair of flutes in certain movements such as the Agnus Dei, as well as the serpent reinforcing the continuo, an old French tradition of the time so that the textures function well together.
Others, however, place the work earlier in Campra’s life. Whether you want to see what we think of today’s reqiiem releases or discover what our critics thought requie your favourite recordings from the past, you will find it all in our full-searchable Reviews Requieem.
The Monteverdi Choir always sound more fervent than that of La Chapelle Royale, but I feel that Gardiner also captures camlra pathos of Campra’s music to a greater extent than Herreweghe. Review This Title Share on Facebook. This title is currently unavailable.
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As usual, the voices of La Chapelle Royale are pleasantly blended and clear in texture. The performance is attentive to points of style and has some particularly convincing solo singing, notably from two British artists, John Elwes and Stephen Varcoe.
These sections are further sub-divided variously into recits, dialogues, duos, camora and choruses. This disc presents two of the later works of his long career, a Requiem written around or so and rwquiem of the grands motetsa setting of Psalm for soloists, chorus, and small orchestra in the Lullian tradition. How curious, since he does not even have an anniversary in the offing. This is music to absorb the soul, not lecture to it.
It is, furthermore, a work of considerable individuality which stands out from among the greater number of sacred works of the ”Grand Siecle”. The Benedictustoo, is excluded, though this is also true of some of Charpentier’s Masses.
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This new recording from Rdquiem Mundi is the third to have been released commercially. Compared with John Eliot Gardiner’s Erato account of the same work, Herreweghe may well strike us as being a little cool, a erquiem detached; it seems a small point but in the end, I think it is the crucial one for Gardiner introduces an intensity to his reading which is persuasive.
Bertil van Boer Read less. This page was last edited on 11 Decemberat In the end it is more a matter of personal taste than a question of choosing the better performance. The New Penguin Opera Guide.