{"id":93478,"date":"2024-10-30T00:07:24","date_gmt":"2024-10-30T04:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/operawire.com\/?p=93478"},"modified":"2024-10-29T12:14:02","modified_gmt":"2024-10-29T16:14:02","slug":"cd-review-br-klassiks-messa-di-gloria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/operawire.com\/cd-review-br-klassiks-messa-di-gloria\/","title":{"rendered":"CD Review: BR Klassik\u2019s &#8216;Messa di Gloria&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Puccini\u2019s \u201cMessa di Gloria\u201d is not the unjustly belittled opera in disguise which musicologists, for decades, have made it to be. They objected to the unbefittingly ariose \u201cGratias agimus,\u201d as well as the mass\u2019 compilatory structure. For a \u201cMass of Glory,\u201d strictly speaking, only contains the Kyrie and Gloria sections; Puccini, however, adopts all five movements of mass, and intersperses them with some of his nascent genius\u2019 finest melodic inventions. For instance, his \u201cAgnus Dei\u201d would be recycled in the Act two madrigal of \u201cManon Lescaut.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Understandably, the \u201cMessa di Gloria\u201d (the title actually seems apocryphal) sparked unease. Yet critics\u2019 relative failure of appreciation stands in sharp contrast with its discographic faring. There is no shortage of good recordings, and only last year did the ever so colorful Gustavo Gimeno (for Harmonia Mundi) add to the growing catalog. Now it is the turn of conductor <a href=\"https:\/\/operawire.com\/?s=Ivan+Repu%C5%A1i%C4%87\">Ivan Repu\u0161i\u0107<\/a> on BR Klassik. The Croatian demonstratively purges the score of the operatic, turning out a surprisingly refined, and lyrical interpretation of this almost-renegade in the Puccini repertory.<\/p>\n<h3>\u201cIn genere sinfonico\u201d<\/h3>\n<p>The album\u2019s main asset is the interpretive malleability of the M\u00fcnchner Rundfunkorchester who treat each segment as its own, symphonic Satz. The colors are invariably changing, and while the tempi are nearly identical to Pappano\u2019s rather boldly fashioned reading from 2001, Repu\u0161i\u0107 relinquishes any too melodramatic edge in favor of a remarkably homogeneous, and &#8211; for want of a better word &#8211; Germanic orchestral facture. For instance, the strings transitioning into the majestic \u201cQuoniam tu solus sanctus\u201d have never had more lyrical agency than here. The choir also does not erupt like in Verdi\u2019s \u201cRequiem;\u201d it softly builds instead of grafting itself on the playing of the orchestra.<\/p>\n<p>Puccini\u2019s affinities therefore clearly point towards a transalpine way of composing music, even though this juvenile predilection &#8211; if such it is &#8211; only persists until the creation of \u201cLe Villi;\u201d after 1884, his self-proclaimed \u201cgenere sinfonico\u201d (symphonic genre) is gradually being displaced.<\/p>\n<h3>Condensed Lyricism<\/h3>\n<p>The soloists occupy a strangely ambivalent position in the \u201cMessa.\u201d Yet in keeping with his holistic approach, Repu\u0161i\u0107 embeds them in a firmly set vision in which there is little to no room for digressions into the overly operatic. For example, he imparts a crisp time on the notorious \u201cGratias agimus,\u201d situating the tenor part of <a href=\"https:\/\/operawire.com\/?s=Tomislav+Mu%C5%BEek\">Tomislav Mu\u017eek<\/a> at opposite ends of the pompous 1984 recording by Claudio Scimone. Even the \u201cAgnus Dei\u201d (with the excellent George Petean) feels like a genuinely spirited coda rather than the somewhat disjunct appendage from earlier releases.<\/p>\n<p>As is customary, the program is rounded off by the threnodial \u201cCrisantemi\u201d (arranged by the distinguished Lucas Drew), and Puccini\u2019s very imposing, if eclectic \u201cPreludio sinfonico.\u201d The latter knowingly borrows from Wagner, and is interpreted with some unexpected symphonic roundness. I personally prefer the bold sweeps from Pappano; but for the mass itself, Repu\u0161i\u0107\u2019s unrelentingly soft lyricism stands without competition. It is the most harmonious version yet, and for its radical novelty deserves every attention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Puccini\u2019s \u201cMessa di Gloria\u201d is not the unjustly belittled opera in disguise which musicologists, for decades, have made it to be. They objected to the unbefittingly ariose \u201cGratias agimus,\u201d as well as the mass\u2019 compilatory structure. 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