{"product_id":"4589538746520","title":"Herve Niquet - Berlioz: Messe Solennelle - Import CD","description":"\u003cp\u003eCredits:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHerve Niquet\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDescription:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e[A masterpiece from the genius Nika—a stunning display of the young Berlioz’s pure talent! You might even recognize some of the melodies…!]\nNot long after Berlioz had begun studying medicine in Paris, he heard an opera by Salieri and resolved to pursue a career in music in earnest. This is the very first major work he eventually completed… Composed a few years after Beethoven’s “Missa Solemnis” and around the same time as the masses by Cherubini and Schubert, Berlioz’s “Missa Solemnis” remained unknown for a long time, based on testimony that the composer himself had destroyed the score. However, the score was miraculously discovered in Belgium at the end of the 20th century, and John Eliot Gardiner recorded it shortly thereafter. While the world’s first recording of a 19th-century composer’s work using period instruments was groundbreaking at the time, the fact that new recordings have rarely appeared since then has been a great loss in terms of understanding the composer’s true character. So isn’t it wonderful news that Hervé Niquet—who once caused a sensation with his meticulous period-instrument recreation of Handel’s *Music for the Royal Fireworks*—is now releasing a completely new recording on Alpha?\nThe “Grand Messe” is a monumental work for large orchestra that Berlioz composed at the age of 21, at a time when he had received virtually no formal musical education. Although the premiere was fraught with great difficulties, the result left Parisian music connoisseurs of the time breathless, astonished by the emergence of an extraordinary talent who defied convention. This took place five years before the creation of the *Symphonie fantastique* (in this *Grand Messe Solennelle*, the melody from the third movement of the *Symphonie fantastique* appears with a chorus, and there are numerous other passages that were later reused in other works, such as the original version of “Tuba Mirum” from the *Requiem*). The composer later destroyed the autograph score, and this monumental work remained a long-lost masterpiece until the score was miraculously unearthed in Antwerp, Belgium, in 1991. You can now hear it performed by Le Concert Spirituel, led by Hervé Niquet, an expert in period instrumentation. The orchestra features such accomplished soloists as the Madouf brothers—pioneers of the unvalved natural brass—and Patrick Vivar, a master of the serpent (who also plays the ophicleide with Les Siècles), delving into the fresh 19th-century sound that astonished Parisians, informed by the latest insights in early music.\nNaxos Japan\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Alpha","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53595612709153,"sku":"4589538746520","price":2970.0,"currency_code":"JPY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0568\/8482\/2076\/files\/4589538746520.jpg?v=1790481926","url":"https:\/\/cdsvinyljapan.com\/products\/4589538746520","provider":"CDs Vinyl Japan Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}