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Reviewer: Alexandra Coghlan
This interest lies in unpicking the roughly-sewn seams of Jean Gilles’s Messe des morts in its 1764 version, recomposed for Rameau’s funeral by François Rebel and François Francoeur, to reveal the sources of the contrasting material within. At least 12 versions of the Gilles Requiem survive. Popularity kept it in fashion long after its musical style had ceased to be current, with interpolations made in each case to fit it to the particular occasion.
This disc aims to recreate the complete music of Rameau’s funeral service, supplementing the Mass itself with extracts from Dardanus, Castor et Pollux and Zoroastre according to information from historical sources. The result is a bizarre but attractive mixture of 17th- and 18th-century styles (occasionally colliding in the same movement), with only the suddenly Italianate Elévation breaking the makeshift unity of the whole.
Gilles’s own music is knot-garden formal, all stately processionals and filigree solo verse sections. Though lovingly performed here, it just doesn’t stand up to Rameau’s own musical invention, which announces itself every time it appears, seizing the ear with character. The string opening to ‘Tristes apprêts’ from Castor offers a ravishing interlude after the Sanctus, and the Kyrie – an adaption of ‘Que tout gemisse’, also from Castor – brings with it all the poised despair of its original source. As anniversary tributes to Rameau go, this is not only among the quirkiest but also the most evocative. |
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