IDAGIO | Puccini: Messa di Gloria - Verdi: Stabat Mater & Te Deum 4037408060189

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Karl Rathgeber
Bernhard Schneider
Christian Schmidt-Timmermann
Barbara Bübl
PKF - Prague Philharmonia
Chor der Hochschule für Evangelische Kirchenmusik Bayreuth

Konzertchor der Hochschule für katholische Kirchenmusik Regensburg
Giacomo Puccini
Giuseppe Verdi

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Compositional Technique

Verdi's Te Deum uniquely begins with male voices quoting or imitating Gregorian chants, allowing for a highly contrasting and rich entry of the 'Sanctus' text.

Composer Biography

Giuseppe Verdi considered the foundation of a home for elderly musicians in need in Milan in 1899, which received all royalties from his works, to be his 'best work'.

Composition History

Puccini's Messa di Gloria, a youthful work from 1878-1880, was only rediscovered and published in 1950 by American priest Dante del Fiorentino, who found it during research for a biography.

Composition History

Verdi's Quattro Pezzi Sacri, including the Stabat Mater and Te Deum, were his very last compositions, written between 1886 and 1897 after his late operas Otello and Falstaff.

Composer Biography

Giacomo Puccini came from a long line of musicians in Lucca, with his family holding the posts of city organist and orchestra conductor for 125 years.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Verdi's Stabat Mater, composed in 1896/97, achieves an incredible density of meaning by setting the text without traditional repetitions, contrary to convention.