Credits:

Les Arts Florissants & William Christie

Description:

Leszar Florissant sings beautifully with grandeur and exquisite softness! Vivaldi's imaginary "Mass" Vivaldi was a licensed priest, known as the "Red-Haired Priest," but he was a lay priest who did not preside over services. Most of his activities consisted of teaching at the Conservatory of Music attached to the Pietà Charité and his activities as an opera composer and violin virtuoso, and he composed relatively little in the genre of church music, leaving no so-called completed "masses" to accompany all of the liturgical texts of the Mass. The Résor Florissant, led by Agnew, has created a complete "Mass" by combining Vivaldi's other compositions with the texts of the Mass texts without changing the melody (contrafactum), along with the existing completed religious works such as the "Gloria" and others. The soloists and instrumentalists are superb, and the performance is magnificent and supremely soft, full of joy and love of music. King International

Tracklisting:

1.Great Venetian Mass~I. Kyrie eleison, RV 587: Coro, Kyrie eleison
2.Great Venetian Mass~I. Kyrie eleison, RV 587: Coro. Christe eleison
3.Great Venetian Mass~I. Kyrie eleison, RV 587: Coro. Kyrie eleison
4.Great Venetian Mass~II. Introduzione al Gloria: Motet Ostro picta, armata spina, RV 642: Aria. Ostro picta, armata spina
5.Great Venetian Mass~II. Introduzione al Gloria: Motet Ostro picta, armata spina, RV 642: Recitativo. Sic transit vana et brevis gloria mundi
6.Great Venetian Mass~II. Introduzione al Gloria: Motet Ostro picta, armata spina, RV 642: Aria. Linguis favete, omnes silete
7.Great Venetian Mass~III. Gloria, RV 589: Coro. Gloria in excelsis Deo
8.Great Venetian Mass~III. Gloria, RV 589: Coro. Et in terra pax hominibus
9.Great Venetian Mass~III. Gloria, RV 589: Duetto. Laudamus te, benedicimus te
10.Great Venetian Mass~III. Gloria, RV 589: Coro. Gratias agimus tibi
11.Great Venetian Mass~III. Gloria, RV 589: Aria. Domine Deus, Rex caelestis
12.Great Venetian Mass~III. Gloria, RV 589: Coro. Domine fili unigenite
13.Great Venetian Mass~III. Gloria, RV 589: Accompagnato e Coro. Domine Deus, Agnus Dei
14.Great Venetian Mass~III. Gloria, RV 589: Coro. Qui tollis peccata mundi, suscipe depracationem
15.Great Venetian Mass~III. Gloria, RV 589: Aria. Qui sedes ad dexteram Patris
16.Great Venetian Mass~III. Gloria, RV 589: Coro. Quoniam tu solus sanctus
17.Great Venetian Mass~IV. Credo, RV 591: Coro. Credo in unum Deum
18.Great Venetian Mass~IV. Credo, RV 591: Coro. Et incarnatus est
19.Great Venetian Mass~IV. Credo, RV 591: Coro. Crucifixus etiam pro nobis
20.Great Venetian Mass~IV. Credo, RV 591: Coro. Et resurrexit tertia die
21.Great Venetian Mass~V. Sanctus (Contrafactum RV 597/1 & RV 807/7): Coro. Sanctus Dominus, Deus Sabaoth
22.Great Venetian Mass~V. Sanctus (Contrafactum RV 597/1 & RV 807/7): Coro. Pleni sunt caeli et terra gloria tua
23.Great Venetian Mass~V. Sanctus (Contrafactum RV 597/1 & RV 807/7): Coro. Osanna in excelsis
24.Great Venetian Mass~VI. Benedictus (contrafactum, RV 807/8): Aria. Benedictus qui venit in nomine Domini
25.Great Venetian Mass~VI. Benedictus (contrafactum, RV 807/8): Coro. Osanna in excelsis
26.Great Venetian Mass~VII. Agnus Dei (contrafactum RV 610/1 & RV 587): Coro: Agnus Dei