Gioachino Rossini: Petite Messe Solennelle

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Gioacchino Rossini: Petite Messe solennelle

Eleonora Buratto, soprano
Sara Mingardo, mezzo-soprano
Kenneth Tarver, tenor
Luca Pisaroni, bass
Tobias Berndt, organ

Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra
Wiener Singakademie
Gustavo Gimeno, conductor

“Is this sacred music, or sacred music?” wrote Gioacchino Rossini about the Petite Messe solennelle to its patron, the regent of the Bank of France, for the consecration of his Parisian mansion. This private setting explains the choice of an originally reduced ensemble – four soloists, a choir of eight singers, two pianos and a harmonium. In 1867, however, Rossini decided to orchestrate this chamber mass before others could do it for him, as he said. It is this "last sin of old age", in reference to the collections of the same name, where the profane and the sacred rub shoulders and which testifies to the rediscovery, in the 19th century, of ancient repertoires, which are performed, for Easter, by the Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra, the Wiener Singakademie and four exceptional soloists, all under the direction of Gustavo Gimeno.