Messa a 4 voci con orchestra
Edizione Nazionale delle Opere di Giacomo Puccini, III/2 SC 6
The Messa a 4 voci was composed by the 22-year-old Giacomo Puccini at the end of his schooldays, and revised about 15 years later. Even in this early work, the subtlety of writing found in Puccini’s later operas is clear, works in which he re-used some themes from the mass. The Messa a 4 voci sparkles with vitality, and even this youthful, dynamic, but demanding work requires a thorough knowledge of the piece by the choral singers.
The Carus Choir Coach offers choir singers the unique opportunity to study and learn their own, individual choral parts within the context of the sound of the entire choir and orchestra. For every vocal range a separate Audio CD or MP3 and download containing each choir part is available. The Carus Choir Coach is based on recorded interpretations by renowned artists who have performed the work from carefully prepared Carus Urtext editions. Each choir part is presented in three different versions:
- Original recording
- Coach: each part is accompanied by the piano, with the original recording sounding in the background
- Coach in slow mode: the tempo of the coach slows down to 70% of the original version – through this reduction passages can be learned more effectively.
Performers: Antonello Palombi (tenore), Gunnar Lundberg (basso) – Hungarian Radio Choir, Hungarian Opera Orchestra – Pier Giorgio Morandi
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- Kyrie
- Gloria
- Credo
- Sanctus e Benedictus
- Agnus Dei
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text (without music) for download, html file, Singing text, originalhtml file, Singing text, original (Sample)Kyrie Kyrie (Coro)Kyrie eleison.
Gloria Gloria in excelsis Deo (Coro)
Christe eleison.
Kyrie eleison.Gloria in excelsis Deo.
Gratias agimus tibi (Solo T)
Et in terra pax hominibus bonae voluntatis.
Laudamus te, benedicimus te, adoramus te, glorificamus te.Gratias agimus tibi propter magnam gloriam tuam.
Gloria in excelsis Deo (Coro)
Domine Deus, Rex coelestis, Deus Pater omnipotens.
Domine Fili unigenite, Jesu Christe.
Domine Deus, Agnus Dei, Filius Patris.
Qui tollis peccata mundi, miserere nobis,
suscipe deprecationem nostram, miserere nobis.
Quoniam tu solus Sanctus,
tu solus Dominus,...
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text (without music) for download, html file, Introductory text, Englishhtml file, Introductory text, English (Sample)Abridged Foreword of the Edition Carus 40.645/03
Dieter Schickling
Translation: J. Bradford RobinsonThe Messa a 4 con orchestra, by Giacomo Puccini, is the composer’s largest non-operatic work. He finished the piece in the summer of 1880 (the Credo had already been written and performed two years earlier), almost at the same time that he completed his studies at the Istituto musicale «G. Pacini», a sort of musical secondary school located in his native Lucca. The complete work received its premiere on 12 July 1880 at a church service for the feast of Lucca’s patron saint, San Paolino.
Notwithstanding the high praise bestowed upon the Messa by the local newspaper, no sooner had Puccini taken his degree than he declined to follow the path laid out for him by his family and the town luminaries. He left Lucca to continue his studies in Milan at the most prestigious conservatory in Italy and to pursue an entirely different dream: to become an opera composer in the wake of his idol, Richard Wagner. After some initial difficulties this dream eventually came true. There is surely a touch of self-detached irony in the fact – and the way – that Puccini borrowed two movements from the Messa for use in his
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text (without music) for download, html file, Introductory text, Germanhtml file, Introductory text, German (Sample)Gekürztes Vorwort der Ausgabe Carus 40.645/03
Dieter Schickling
Die Messa a 4 con orchestra ist das umfangreichste Werk Giacomo Puccinis außerhalb der Opern. Ihre Komposition (unter Integration eines schon zwei Jahre früher geschriebenen und aufgeführten Credo) wurde im Sommer 1880 abgeschlossen, fast gleichzeitig mit dem Ende von Puccinis Schulzeit im Istituto musicale «G. Pacini», einer Art musikalischem Gymnasium seiner Vaterstadt Lucca. Die Uraufführung des vollständigen Werks fand am 12. Juli 1880 während eines Gottesdienstes am Fest des Heiligen Paolino statt, des Patrons von Lucca.
Doch sogleich nach seinem Schulabschluss und obwohl die Messa in der lokalen Presse hoch gelobt wurde, verweigerte sich Puccini der von seiner Familie und den städtischen Honoratioren vorgezeichneten Laufbahn. Er verließ Lucca, um in Mailand am renommiertesten Konservatorium Italiens weiter zu studieren – mit einem ganz anderen Traum: Opernkomponist in der Nachfolge des vergötterten Richard Wagner zu werden, was ihm nach einigen Anfangsmühen ja schließlich auch gelang. Es entbehrt gewiss nicht der distanzreichen Selbstironie, dass und wie Puccini zwei Sätze der Messa in späteren Opern verwendete: Das
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Composer
Giacomo Puccini
| 1858-1924Giacomo Puccini came from a dynasty of church musicians who worked in the Tuscan city of Lucca. His Messa a 4 con orchestra, premiered there in 1880, seemed to point him toward a career in the same direction, but directly after this, he went to Milan Conservatoire with the aim of becoming an opera composer. His only independent orchestral works were written there as student works – the Preludio sinfonico (1882) and Capriccio sinfonico (1883), as well as some of his 16 complete surviving songs for voice and piano (Canti), which he composed, with frequent references to his operas, almost throughout his career. He achieved a breakthrough as an opera composer with Manon Lescaut (1893); between 1893 and 1904 he composed La Bohème, Tosca and Madama Butterfly, which remain his most frequently-performed works today. In recent years there has been a growing realisation that Puccini's entire output requires reappraisal. And so, he has increasingly come to be understood as a musician searching for a way forward into the modern age. Personal details
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Vocal score arranger
Paul Horn
| 1922-2016Paul Horn war ein deutscher Kirchenmusiker, Organist, Komponist und Musikwissenschaftler. Er studierte Kirchenmusik und Orgel an der Evangelischen Kirchenmusikschule Esslingen am Neckar bei Hans-Arnold Metzger und Musikwissenschaft, Theologie und Geschichte an der Universität Tübingen. Seine berufliche Laufbahn begann als Kantor an der Evangelischen Michaelskirche in Stuttgart-Degerloch. 1954 wurde er Kantor an der Evangelischen Stadtkirche Ravensburg, eine Position, die er bis zu seiner Pensionierung innehatte. Als Musikwissenschaftler arbeitete Horn bis ins hohe Alter eng mit Carus zusammen. So stammen zahlreiche Carus-Klavierauszüge aus seiner Feder. Personal details
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Choir
Hungarian Radio Choir
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Ensemble
Hungarian Opera Orchestra
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Conductor
Pier Giorgio Morandi
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Soloist - tenor
Antonello Palombi
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Soloist - bass
Gunnar Lundberg
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