Mozart écrit les Vesperae Solennes de Confessore à Salzbourg à l’âge de 24 ans, peu après la mort de sa mère à Paris. Dans cette œuvre comme dans quelques autres compositions de cette période, il fait son travail de deuil, ce qui est particulièrement manifeste dans le « Laudate Dominum », la cinquième partie des vêpres. Les Vesperae Solennes de Confessore ne se cantonnent cependant pas à ce registre sincère et sentimental, mais affichent un caractère diversifié. Le chœur final, un « Magnificat » brillant fait résonner les timbales et les trompettes, on leur doit le nom « Solennes » de l’œuvre.
Le Carus Choir Coach offre aux choristes une aide unique pour apprendre leur voix au sein de la sonorité du chœur et de l’orchestre. Pour chaque voix, un CD audio ou MP3 et un téléchargement est disponible avec tous les mouvements chantés par le chœur. Le CD se base sur un enregistrement d’interprètes prestigieux, qui ont pour celui-ci utilisé l’édition Urtext de Carus. Chaque mouvement est présenté en trois variantes :
- Version originale
- Coach : la voix sélectionnée est jouée au piano, avec l’enregistrement original en arrière-pla
- Coach en mode ralenti : l’enregistrement comme le coach sont ralentis à environ 70 % du tempo initial, ainsi les passages difficiles peuvent être travaillés efficacement.
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Compositeur
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
| 1756-1791As the son of the deputy Kapellmeister to the Salzburg Prince-Archbishop, Mozart was constantly surrounded by church music in his youth. On his travels Mozart became familiar with Italian church music, and later in Vienna he studied the works of Bach and Handel. After moving to Vienna he was faced with the new challenges of composing opera and piano concertos, and significantly the “C Minor Mass” KV 427, the greatest sacred work of the first Vienna years, remained unfinished. The last period of his life again shows a change of direction to church music: Mozart successfully applied to succeed the terminally ill Leopold Hoffmann as Kapellmeister at St Stephen's Cathedral, but he was unable to take up the position as he died before Hoffmann. A gem such as the “Ave verum” KV 618 and the incomplete Requiem KV 626 give us an idea of what Mozart might have achieved as a composer of sacred music if he had taken up this important position. Plus d'information sur la personne
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Chœur
Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir
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Orchestre
Tallinn Chamber Orchestra
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Chef d'orchestre
Tonu Kaljuste
For twenty years Tõnu Kaljuste (conductor) was artistic director and principal conductor of the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, which he founded in 1981, and the Tallinn Chamber Orchestra. Kaljuste has also been chief conductor of the Swedish Radio Choir and the Netherlands Chamber Choir. He has directed international choral seminars and workshops for several years and has worked as a guest conductor with leading orchestras and choirs throughout Europe, Australia and America. As well as immersing himself in the music of the great northern and eastern European moderns, such as Schnittke, Kurtag, Penderecki, Rautavaara and Kancheli, he has a deep affinity with the composers of his native Estonia, including Pärt, Tüür, Tormis and Eller. He has established an international reputation with his wide-ranging repertoire from opera, via the traditional symphonic repertoire to contemporary music. His numerous recordings have won many awards and have been nominated for Grammy awards. In 1999 he received the Cannes Classical Award in the category “Best 20th Century Choral Music” for his recording of Alfred Schnittke’s Psalms of Repentance. In 2004 he was awarded first prize by the Estonian State Foundation “Kultuurkapital.” The same year he became artistic director of the Nargen Festival, an annual, three-month long musical event on the coast of Estonia. He is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music. Plus d'information sur la personne