Jordi Savall – In Excelsis Deo (2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz]

Jordi Savall – In Excelsis Deo (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:54:11 minutes | 2,11 GB | Genre: Classical
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This album, In excelcis Deo, with two religious works written at the time of the Spanish war of succession, presents the Missa Scala Arentina to four choirs by the Catalan composer Francesc Valls (1671-1747) and the Mass for Two Choirs and Two Orchestras by the French composer Henry Desmarest (1661-1741), each held up as a mirror to the other. These exceptional masterpieces are tightly connected in time, one dating from 1701 and the other from 1704. The Spanish war of succession raged from 1701 to 1714 and was the last of the major wars fought by Louis XIV of France: this terrible European conflict revolved around the succession to the Spanish throne following the death of the last Spanish Hapsburg, Charles II (he was epileptic, he contracted syphilis from his mother at birth- yes, that’s a thing – and he was also infertile) and, through it all, political and commercial dominance in Europe. Finally, Spain lost more or less all of its European possessions – in Italy, the Netherlands, Sardinia, and even in Spain itself, with Gibraltar falling into British hands. The Bourbons would be installed on the Spanish throne (where they still sit today), while Barcelona was “recaptured”, Catalonia having taken the side of Austria and the Austrian Hapsburgs… A can of worms was opened which is still squirming today! This album, musically very ecumenical thanks to the talent of Jordi Savall, juxtaposes the works of musicians who came from countries on opposite sides of the war, whose masses were held one in Barcelona, and the other in Versailles. It is up to the listener to form their own opinion as to whether the music of the very Catholic French and the very Catholic Catalans is so different after all!

Tracklist:

1-01. Jordi Savall – Missa Scala Aretina: Kyrie I (02:08)
1-02. Jordi Savall – Missa Scala Aretina: Christe Eleison (01:31)
1-03. Jordi Savall – Missa Scala Aretina: Kyrie II (02:55)
1-04. Jordi Savall – Missa Scala Aretina: Gloria (01:36)
1-05. Jordi Savall – Missa Scala Aretina: Gratias (02:39)
1-06. Jordi Savall – Missa Scala Aretina: Qui tollis (02:40)
1-07. Jordi Savall – Missa Scala Aretina: Quoniam tu solus Dominus (01:15)
1-08. Jordi Savall – Missa Scala Aretina: Cum Sancto Spiritu (01:31)
1-09. Jordi Savall – Missa Scala Aretina: Credo (03:08)
1-10. Jordi Savall – Missa Scala Aretina: Et incarnatus est (01:23)
1-11. Jordi Savall – Missa Scala Aretina: Crucifixus (01:02)
1-12. Jordi Savall – Missa Scala Aretina: Et resurrexit (00:28)
1-13. Jordi Savall – Missa Scala Aretina: Et ascendit (01:53)
1-14. Jordi Savall – Missa Scala Aretina: Et in spiritum (03:58)
1-15. Jordi Savall – Missa Scala Aretina: Sanctus (02:22)
1-16. Jordi Savall – Missa Scala Aretina: Agnus Dei (04:23)
1-17. Jordi Savall – Battala imperial (05:18)
1-18. Jordi Savall – El Cant dels Aucells (05:28)
1-19. Jordi Savall – Catalunya comptat gran (romance) (01:49)
1-20. Jordi Savall – Catalunya triomfant (instrumental & hymne) (02:23)
1-21. Jordi Savall – Catalunya en altre temps (plainte) (04:28)
2-01. Jordi Savall – Messe à double chœur: Kyrie I (05:07)
2-02. Jordi Savall – Messe à double chœur: Christe Eleison (00:58)
2-03. Jordi Savall – Messe à double chœur: Kyrie II (01:06)
2-04. Jordi Savall – Messe à double chœur: Gloria (00:08)
2-05. Jordi Savall – Messe à double chœur: Et in terra pax (02:04)
2-06. Jordi Savall – Messe à double chœur: Gratias (00:42)
2-07. Jordi Savall – Messe à double chœur: Domine Deus, rex caelestis (01:18)
2-08. Jordi Savall – Messe à double chœur: Domine Deus, Agnus Dei (03:55)
2-09. Jordi Savall – Messe à double chœur: Quoniam tu solus Dominus (02:26)
2-10. Jordi Savall – Messe à double chœur: Cum sancto spiritu (04:31)
2-11. Jordi Savall – Messe à double chœur: Credo in unum Deum (00:07)
2-12. Jordi Savall – Messe à double chœur: Patrem omnipotentem (haute-contre) (00:28)
2-13. Jordi Savall – Messe à double chœur: Patrem omnipotentem (double chœur) (00:18)
2-14. Jordi Savall – Messe à double chœur: Et in unum Dominum (00:40)
2-15. Jordi Savall – Messe à double chœur: Et ex Padre natum (00:57)
2-16. Jordi Savall – Messe à double chœur: Deum de Deo (00:45)
2-17. Jordi Savall – Messe à double chœur: Genitum, non factum (02:40)
2-18. Jordi Savall – Messe à double chœur: Qui propter nos homines (00:41)
2-19. Jordi Savall – Messe à double chœur: Et incarnatus est (02:40)
2-20. Jordi Savall – Messe à double chœur: Crucifixus (05:26)
2-21. Jordi Savall – Messe à double chœur: Et resurrexit (01:42)
2-22. Jordi Savall – Messe à double chœur: Et iterum venturus est (01:00)
2-23. Jordi Savall – Messe à double chœur: Cujus regni (02:37)
2-24. Jordi Savall – Messe à double chœur: Et in spiritum (01:07)
2-25. Jordi Savall – Messe à double chœur: Qui locutus est (00:55)
2-26. Jordi Savall – Messe à double chœur: Confiteor (00:50)
2-27. Jordi Savall – Messe à double chœur: Et expecto (00:51)
2-28. Jordi Savall – Messe à double chœur: Et vitam venturi saeculi (02:42)
2-29. Jordi Savall – Messe à double chœur: Symphonie-Sanctus (03:03)
2-30. Jordi Savall – Messe à double chœur: Pleni sunt caeli et terra (01:12)
2-31. Jordi Savall – Messe à double chœur: Benedictus (01:19)
2-32. Jordi Savall – Messe à double chœur: Hossana in excelsis (00:48)
2-33. Jordi Savall – Messe à double chœur: Agnus Dei (Symphonie, récit de taille) (01:50)
2-34. Jordi Savall – Messe à double chœur: Agnus Dei (double chœur) (03:00)

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