We noticed Giulio Prandi in 2020 in a revealing recording of the Requiem by Jommelli. Excellent idea from Arcana: a visual kinship aims for continuity with the Small Solemn Mass, strange unloved “bug”. Giulio Prandi proves to us, after Michel Corboz, but differently, that it was approached from the wrong angle. It is not a question of engaging Pavarotti and believing that we will win the piece. Above all, we must do justice to a religious spirit that mixes hints of Palestrina (christe eleison), pure Rossini (Dominate Deus) and moments out of time (Crucifixus). Prior to the traditional orchestral version, Rossini had originally composed his Mass in 1864 for two fortepianos and a harmonium, and that’s exactly what we hear in this fully-right spirited first recording of the new critical edition of the Rossini Foundation of Pesaro: an Érard, a Pleyel and a harmonium. The soloists led by Sandrine Piau are perfectly proportioned to the choral and instrumental forces.
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