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Giovanni Sgambati, Messa Da Requiem. Giovanni Sgambati, Messa Da Requiem Giovanni Sgambati - Messa Da Requiem (1895) I. Introitus: Requiem aeternam, Kyrie - 00:00 II. Sequenz: Dies irae - 9:17 III. …More
Giovanni Sgambati, Messa Da Requiem.

Giovanni Sgambati, Messa Da Requiem

Giovanni Sgambati - Messa Da Requiem (1895)

I. Introitus: Requiem aeternam, Kyrie - 00:00
II. Sequenz: Dies irae - 9:17
III. Offertorium: Domine, Jesu Christe/ Hostias - 32:51
IV. Sanctus- Benedictus - 47:18
V. Motetto: 'Versa est' - 52:29
VI. Agnus Dei/ Communio: Lux aeterna - 58:54
VII. Libera me - 1:06:25

Giovanni Sgambati (1841--1914) was, along with Giuseppe Martucci, one of the prime movers behind the rebirth of Italian instrumental music, a campaign aimed at reducing the pre-eminence of opera and raising audiences' awareness of how much had been and was still being produced in the way of orchestral and chamber music in the latter half of the nineteenth century.

Italian audiences did not hear Beethoven's Third Symphony until 1867, and it was Giovanni Sgambati who conducted that premiere, as he did the first Italian performances of Beethoven's Seventh (in 1870) and of such significant contemporary works as Liszt's Dante Symphony and Christus oratorio. Born in Rome, a talented pianist and composer, Sgambati had come into contact with musicians from elsewhere in Europe early on in his career. His friend and teacher Franz Liszt enabled him to move to Germany, where the world of instrumental music appeared to be following completely different rules, with a wealth of possibilities for composition and performance. Orchestras there were "well-oiled machines" boasting remarkable forces and sonic potential, and this clearly influenced the work of those composers who saw the symphony as the vehicle for the highest expression of poetic and aesthetic truth.