Customer Reviews

Mass for 2 Choirs & Orchestra

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Lovely, expressive music with much incidental contrapuntal activity and a few elaborate fugal episodes. Sonics, however, though not bad, are not ideal, making it difficult to clearly differentiate every strand in the more complex portions, such as the triple fugue that concludes the "Gloria". On the other hand, if one adjusts the volume upward in order to be able to clarify the solo, ensemble, choral, and instrumental lines in the Mass, the solo organ interludes can become thunderous. 5 stars for the music, 4 1/2 for the performance, and a hair short of 4 for the sonics.

i will just say a brief insert here i have it it is profound all of it this is a great preformance of what it may have been like to have been at Versailles for a high mass with the court and King. it is so beautifull and sonorous the use of the organ of the chateau de Versailles Royalle chapel is so elegant and rich Louis Marchand is the most profound of organiste composors for the chapel and he leads in the entry to the beginning of this mass. it is so elegant rich and full of religious grande style. you must own it if your a old royallist like me. it is a must have. i stake my life on this one it is so good. all of it.. listen to it and see its beauty .. I think it may have all been recorded in Versailles as a matter of fact to the place it was written for. Number 1 in quality!