Berlioz - Te Deum, op.22 - Abbado (1981)

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Berlioz - Te Deum, op.22 - Abbado (1981)

En 1981, Claudio Abbado donnait une saisissante interprétation du "Te Deum" d'Hector Berlioz, dans le cadre somptueux de la cathédrale St Alban, près de Londres, à la tête des musiciens de l'Orchestre des Jeunes de la Communauté Européenne (EUYO), formation qu'il avait fondée trois ans plus tôt. L'occasion de revoir le maestro Abbado, et le ténor mexicain Francisco Araiza (Te ergo quaesumus) dans cette oeuvre de premier plan, rarement donnée, qui trouve ici sa version de référence.

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Hector Berlioz

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Hector Berlioz[1] (French: [ɛktɔʁ bɛʁljoːz]; 11 December 1803 – 8 March 1869) was a French Romantic composer, best known for his compositions Symphonie fantastique and Grande messe des morts (Requiem). Berlioz made significant contributions to the modern orchestra with his Treatise on Instrumentation. He specified huge orchestral forces for some of his works, and conducted several concerts with more than 1,000 musicians.[2] He also composed around 50 songs. His influence was critical for the further development of Romanticism, especially in composers like Richard Wagner, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Franz Liszt, Richard Strauss, and Gustav Mahler.[3]

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Te Deum (Berlioz)

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The Te Deum (Op. 22 / H.118) by Hector Berlioz (1803–1869) was completed in 1849. Like the earlier and more famous Grande Messe des Morts, it is one of the works referred to by Berlioz in his Memoirs as "the enormous compositions which some critics have called architectural or monumental music." While the orchestral forces required for the Te Deum are by no means as titanic as those of the Requiem, the work does call for an organ that can compete on equal terms with the rest of the orchestra. It lasts approximately fifty minutes and derives its text from the traditional Latin Te Deum, although Berlioz made some changes to word order for dramatic purposes.

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[Thorliveshere]

aaaaah... Berlioz. Marvelous!

[Intolerant in NJ]

...the work does call for an organ that can compete on equal terms with the rest of the orchestra...heard it live with Dutoit and the Philadelphia Orchestra and Philadelphia Singers Chorale a few years back - sort of tedious but maybe only in comparison to the hit of the day for me - Saint-Saens Organ Symphony.....