IDAGIO | Stravinsky: Monumentum - Mass - Symphonie de Psaumes 8720604703498

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Philippe Herreweghe
DeFilharmonie
Collegium Vocale Gent
Igor Stravinsky

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Compositional Technique

For his Mass, Stravinsky preferred choirboys to women's voices and chose the Latin text, emphasizing his desire for compositional purity and drawing inspiration from polyphonic composers like Guillaume de Machaut.

Performer Biography

Philippe Herreweghe, the conductor, founded Collegium Vocale Gent and La Chapelle Royale, establishing himself as a specialist in Renaissance and Baroque music.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Igor Stravinsky, the composer, believed that music is inherently powerless to express feelings or moods, and that any apparent expression is merely an illusion.

Compositional Technique

In his orchestration of J.S. Bach's Choral-Variationen, Stravinsky not only re-set the original but also added more counterpoint lines to Bach's already complex vocal interplay.

Composition History

Stravinsky's Mass was not a commissioned work but was composed on his own initiative, focusing on the essence of the Mass text with an archaic scoring.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Stravinsky's artistic philosophy, as expressed in his Poetics of Music, emphasized the subjugation of 'Dionysian' imaginative elements to 'Apollonian' control and law.

Composition History

Stravinsky's Monumentum pro Gesualdo di Venosa ad CD Annum is a 'recomposition' created in memory of Carlo Gesualdo, a Renaissance composer, for his 400th birthday.