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Track(s) taken from CDA66669

O salutaris hostia

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Antiphon for the Feast of Corpus Christi

Westminster Cathedral Choir, James O'Donnell (conductor)
Recording details: June 1993
St Jude-on-the-Hill, Hampstead Garden Suburb, London, United Kingdom
Produced by Mark Brown
Engineered by Antony Howell
Release date: November 1993
Total duration: 3 minutes 28 seconds
 

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King's College Choir Cambridge, Daniel Hyde (conductor)

Reviews

‘A beautiful disc of sacred motets from one of this country’s finest choirs’ (Classic FM Magazine)

‘What can one say? A feast beyond all dreams. Guaranteed to please’ (Organists' Review)
The name of Gioacchino Rossini is indissolubly linked with opera, his lighthearted sallies in this field, like The Italian Girl in Algiers and The Barber of Seville, revealing a more assured sense of theatre and making more of an impact than the tragic Tancredi or William Tell. But he also composed sacred music, including the Stabat mater and the Petite messe solennelle. As he wrote in a letter to the critic Filippo Filippi, ‘all genres are good except the boring one’. O salutaris hostia is a moving, homophonic motet for unaccompanied four-part choir, published in Paris in 1857.

from notes by Wadham Sutton © 1993

Le nom de Gioacchino Rossini est inséparable de l’opéra, genre dans lequel ses contributions plus allègres comme l’Italiana in Algeri ou Il Barbiere di Siviglia révélent un sens théâtral plus assuré et s’avèrent d’un impact plus durable que les œuvres tragiques que sont Tancredi ou Guillaume Tell. Mais Rossini composa également de la musique sacrée, dont le Stabat mater et la Petite messe solennelle. Comme il l’écrivit dans une lettre adressée au critique Filippo Filippi, «tous les genres sont bons, hormis l’ennuyeux». Publié à Paris en 1857, O salutaris hostia est un motet homophonique assez touchant pour chœur non accompagné à quatre parties.

extrait des notes rédigées par Wadham Sutton © 1993
Français: Jean-Paul Metzger

Der Name Gioacchino Rossini ist untrennbar mit der Oper verbunden; seine leichtherzigen Ausflüge in dieses Gebiet wie L’Italiana in Algeri oder Il Barbiere di Siviglia zeigen ein sichereres Gefühl für das Theater und haben größere Wirkung als die tragischen Opern Tancred und Wilhelm Tell. Doch er komponiert auch Kirchenmusik, einschließlich des Stabat mater und der Petite messe solennelle. Wie er in einem Brief an Filippo Filippi schrieb: „Alle Gattungen sind gut, außer die langweiligen.“ O salutaris hostia ist eine bewegende, homophone Motette für vierstimmigen Chor ohne Begleitung, die in 1857 in Paris veröffentlicht wurde.

aus dem Begleittext von Wadham Sutton © 1993
Deutsch: Heidi Kerschl

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