Friedrichshafen Philharmonic Choir – ROSSINI "Petite messe solennelle"

GIOACHINO ROSSINI – Petite messe solennelle First version for soloists, choir, piano, and harmonium (1863) Flore van Meerssche SOPRANO // Regine Jurda ALTO // Richard Resch TENOR // Raphael Sigling BASS Ina Weißbach PIANO // Hans Maier ACCORDION Friedrichshafen Philharmonic Choir Musical Director: Joachim Trost Archaic a cappella choral movements with echoes of the Renaissance, magnificent solo arias with operatic mellowness and cantabile sensuality, artful, expansive choral fugues with Mediterranean verve—all of this is united in Rossini’s late work, the “Petite Messe solennelle,” written in 1863 for the dedication of the private chapel of a noble couple who were friends of his. Some 35 years after the end of his operatic career, Rossini took on the text of the Ordinarium Missae and interpreted it with wit, reverence, and originality—flirtatiously calling the Mass his “sin of old age” …