Categories:
Cart 0

Your cart is empty

Jürgen Budday|Puccini: Messa di Gloria

Puccini: Messa di Gloria

Giacomo Puccini - Mass Text

Available in
24-Bit/96 kHz Stereo

Unlimited Streaming

Listen to this album in high quality now on our apps

Start my trial period and start listening to this album

Enjoy this album on Qobuz apps with your subscription

Subscribe

Enjoy this album on Qobuz apps with your subscription

Digital Download

Purchase and download this album in a wide variety of formats depending on your needs.

The series of recordings made at the Maulbronn Monastery in southwestern Germany, released on the K&K label, has focused mostly on church music that might have been suitable both to the space and to the performing styles of the local musicians involved. Neither condition holds in the case of Messa di Gloria, a work by the young Puccini that stands right on the boundary between the church music of his ancestors and the operatic art to which he would devote himself. Long considered a kind of curiosity, it was published only in the 1950s and was rarely performed. Its spiky lurching from operatic melody to academic counterpoint seems more sympathetic today, however, and the work has been programmed by choirs great and small. It demands singers and players immersed in Italian idioms, however, and that doesn't quite happen with the Kantorei Maulbronn (a choir that sounds great in Haydn) and an ensemble of players from the Southwest German Radio Orchestra. The choir has trouble intonationally, especially the sopranos when Puccini's lines begin to soar. The orchestra is far from sparkling and has a certain stolidity that is deathly in Puccini's music. The two soloists, tenor Willi Stein and baritone Thomas Pfeiffer, are idiomatic, but the monastery is not a good site for Puccini; it boxes the sound in and the text is not consistently intelligible. Better to go elsewhere, both for those in search of the young Puccini's mass and for those intrigued by K&K's series.
© TiVo

More info

Puccini: Messa di Gloria

Jürgen Budday

launch qobuz app I already downloaded Qobuz for Windows / MacOS Open

download qobuz app I have not downloaded Qobuz for Windows / MacOS yet Download the Qobuz app

You are currently listening to samples.

Listen to over 100 million songs with an unlimited streaming plan.

Listen to this playlist and more than 100 million songs with our unlimited streaming plans.

From $10.83/month

Messa di Gloria (Giacomo Puccini)

1
Kyrie
Willi Stein
00:06:08

Jurgen Budday, Conductor - Thomas Pfeiffer, baritone - Maulbronn Chamber Choir, Choir - Jurgen Budday, Conductor - South West German Radio Symphony Orchestra, members, Orchestra

(C) 2011 K&K Verlagsanstalt (P) 2011 K&K Verlagsanstalt

2
Gloria
Willi Stein
00:19:56

Jurgen Budday, Conductor - Thomas Pfeiffer, baritone - Maulbronn Chamber Choir, Choir - Jurgen Budday, Conductor - South West German Radio Symphony Orchestra, members, Orchestra

(C) 2011 K&K Verlagsanstalt (P) 2011 K&K Verlagsanstalt

3
Credo
Willi Stein
00:14:47

Jurgen Budday, Conductor - Thomas Pfeiffer, baritone - Maulbronn Chamber Choir, Choir - Jurgen Budday, Conductor - South West German Radio Symphony Orchestra, members, Orchestra

(C) 2011 K&K Verlagsanstalt (P) 2011 K&K Verlagsanstalt

4
Sanctus
Willi Stein
00:01:19

Jurgen Budday, Conductor - Thomas Pfeiffer, baritone - Maulbronn Chamber Choir, Choir - Jurgen Budday, Conductor - South West German Radio Symphony Orchestra, members, Orchestra

(C) 2011 K&K Verlagsanstalt (P) 2011 K&K Verlagsanstalt

5
Benedictus
Willi Stein
00:02:18

Jurgen Budday, Conductor - Thomas Pfeiffer, baritone - Maulbronn Chamber Choir, Choir - Jurgen Budday, Conductor - South West German Radio Symphony Orchestra, members, Orchestra

(C) 2011 K&K Verlagsanstalt (P) 2011 K&K Verlagsanstalt

6
Agnus Dei
Willi Stein
00:03:22

Jurgen Budday, Conductor - Thomas Pfeiffer, baritone - Maulbronn Chamber Choir, Choir - Jurgen Budday, Conductor - South West German Radio Symphony Orchestra, members, Orchestra

(C) 2011 K&K Verlagsanstalt (P) 2011 K&K Verlagsanstalt

Album review

The series of recordings made at the Maulbronn Monastery in southwestern Germany, released on the K&K label, has focused mostly on church music that might have been suitable both to the space and to the performing styles of the local musicians involved. Neither condition holds in the case of Messa di Gloria, a work by the young Puccini that stands right on the boundary between the church music of his ancestors and the operatic art to which he would devote himself. Long considered a kind of curiosity, it was published only in the 1950s and was rarely performed. Its spiky lurching from operatic melody to academic counterpoint seems more sympathetic today, however, and the work has been programmed by choirs great and small. It demands singers and players immersed in Italian idioms, however, and that doesn't quite happen with the Kantorei Maulbronn (a choir that sounds great in Haydn) and an ensemble of players from the Southwest German Radio Orchestra. The choir has trouble intonationally, especially the sopranos when Puccini's lines begin to soar. The orchestra is far from sparkling and has a certain stolidity that is deathly in Puccini's music. The two soloists, tenor Willi Stein and baritone Thomas Pfeiffer, are idiomatic, but the monastery is not a good site for Puccini; it boxes the sound in and the text is not consistently intelligible. Better to go elsewhere, both for those in search of the young Puccini's mass and for those intrigued by K&K's series.
© TiVo

About the album

Improve album information

Qobuz logo Why buy on Qobuz?

On sale now...

Keep Your Courage

Natalie Merchant

Keep Your Courage Natalie Merchant

The Köln Concert (Live at the Opera, Köln, 1975)

Keith Jarrett

You're the One

Rhiannon Giddens

You're the One Rhiannon Giddens

Owl Song

Ambrose Akinmusire

Owl Song Ambrose Akinmusire
More on Qobuz
By Jürgen Budday

Ein deutsches Requiem Op. 45 (A German Requiem Op. 45) (London Version)

Jürgen Budday

Solomon

Jürgen Budday

Solomon Jürgen Budday

Saul

Jürgen Budday

Saul Jürgen Budday

Handel: Messiah

Jürgen Budday

Handel: Messiah Jürgen Budday

Mozart: Der Messias

Jürgen Budday

Mozart: Der Messias Jürgen Budday
You may also like...

Michel-Richard de Lalande: Grands Motets, Dies irae, Miserere, Veni creator

Ensemble Correspondances

Dvorák : Stabat Mater, Op.58, B.71

Jiří Bělohlávek

Gesualdo: Tenebræ Responsoria, Feria Quinta

Les Arts Florissants

Mozart: Exsultate, jubilate!

Karine Deshayes

Georg Friedrich Händel : Messiah

Emmanuelle Haïm