Product Details

• Actors: Saint-severin Choir
• Format: Classical, Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English (PCM Stereo)
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Image Entertainment
• DVD Release Date: June 8, 1999
• Run Time: 69 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6305394741
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #132,285 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

This disc is part of a series produced by Georges Bessonnet in which the regional orchestras of France are presented. These orchestras range from the very, very good (Picardy Sinfonietta) to the pretty good (Montpellier Philharmonic) to the group featured on this disc--the Versailles Soloists. This group needs some work. The violins tend to play just enough out of tune that you begin to feel little muscles (especially the one at the far end of your digestive tract) tightening up as you listen. They are joined by a chorus with some pitch problems of their own. If this sort of thing doesn't bother you, there are some good qualities to the disc. First of all, the music itself is excellent. It¹s especially nice to have an available performance of the Pergolesi Stabat Mater. The lower strings and the winds sound pretty good, and the ensemble is mostly OK. The video is a pristine transfer of a HDTV production so it looks great. --Seth Krimsky

Product Description

Giovanni Battista Pergolese's "Stabat Mater" and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "Mass in C Major K. 317 'Coronation Mass'" are performed by the Versailles Soloists and the Saint-Severin Choir, conducted by Bernard Le Monnier. Featured soloists are bass Antoine Garcin, tenor Daniel Galvez Vallejo, mezzo soprano Delphine Haidan, and soprano Sophie Fournier.

Customer Reviews

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not so good, but..., December 18, 2001

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Erico Mangaravite (Vitoria, ES Brazil) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Concert at Saint-Severin - Mozart Mass in C Major / Pergolesi Stabat Mater (DVD)

A interesting sacred programme: Pergolesi's Stabat Mater coupled with Mozart's Coronation Mass. The interpreters are four very good soloists (only the two ladies in Pergolesi); a regular orchestra (with some troubles, like violins out of tune); and an irregular choir, alternating bad and good moments (e.g.: bad in Kyrie, good in Gloria). Also, there's a notorious predominance of female voices.
Well, you can find reasons to buy this one: first of all, the music - although these two works deserves better interpretations, here we can listen some pleasant moments. Isn't a first class perfomance (like in Messiah's DVD with Cleobury, or The Creation's DVD with Schreier), but an accetable one. Other reasons are a good work from a young conductor, the quality of soloists, good sound and images (a beautiful church in Paris), and the director's work.
So, if we don't have a definitive version of this couple, let's enjoy this one (two curiousities: mistakes at subtitles informing the dates of the death of both composers, and there is interventions of woman's choir at some parts of Stabat).

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A most enjoyable concert, August 14, 2002

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Milda Ruffo (Mount Royal, Quebec Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Concert at Saint-Severin - Mozart Mass in C Major / Pergolesi Stabat Mater (DVD)

The soloists have beautiful voices, the whole program is played with appropriate dynamics and enthusiasm. The sound is excellent and the filming is also good, giving viewers a sense of "being there".