Campra : Messe de Requiem - Kyrie Eleison (Philippe Herreweghe / Collegium Vocale, Gent) video

※ Better than / Please, click here (watch in high quality - 480p) ※ youtube.com André Campra (1660~1744) - Messe de Requiem, 1722 - 2. Kyrie eleison John Elwes (tenor) La Chapelle Royale Collegium Vocale, Gent Philippe Herreweghe (conductor) A. Campra André Campra (1660-1744), a French composer. He occupied a leading position in French music of the early 18th century. After an earlier career in Toulon and Toulouse, he moved to Paris, where he became maître de musique at Notre Dame and finally won distinction in the opera-house, composing for the Académie Royale de Musique and employed also by the chapelle royale. Campra's first success in the theatre came in 1697 with L'Europe galante, an opéra-ballet with entrées for France, Spain, Italy and Turkey. He continued to write opéra-ballets and tragédies lyriques, generally to be staged at the Paris Opéra. Campra wrote a number of motets and, in 1722, a setting of the requiem mass. Messe de Requiem For soli soprano, tenor,(alto) TBarB, choir ST(A)TBarB, 2 Fl, 2 Vl, 2 Va, Bass (Vocal). The Requiem was written during Campra's tenure as Kapellmeister at the Cathedral in Paris as a work commissioned to commemorate the deceased Archbishop of Paris. Towards the end of the 18th century the tradition of performing parts of Campra's Requiem at funerals or memorial services emerged in the South of France: proofs of this practice as late as 1805 have been documented. Remarkable is the scoring of the work; it calls for four sets of ...