general information

composition date
1965
duration
1h 40 min
editor
Alphonse Leduc, Paris
Commission
Mme de Azeredo-Perdigaô pour la Fondation Gulbenkian
Libretto (details, author)

Saint Thomas d’Aquin’: ‘Somme Théologique’, la Bible

type

Vocal music and instrument(s) (Solo instrument(s), choir(s) and orchestra)

detailed formation

2 piccolos, 4 flutes, 3 oboes, English horn, E-flat clarinet [en mib], 3 clarinets, bass clarinet, 3 bassoons, contrabassoon, 6 horns, piccolo trumpet [en ré], 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, bass trombone, saxhorn [basse], tuba, contrabass tuba, 6 percussionists, 16 violins, 16 second violins, 14 violas, 12 cellos, 10 double basses

information about the creation

date
June 7, 1969
Festival Gulbenkian, Lisbonne
interpreters
Michel Debost (flûte), Henry Druart (clarinette), Alain Jacquet (xylorimba), Jacques Delécluse (vibraphone), François Dupin (marimba), Yvonne Loriod (piano), Mstislav Rostropovitch (violoncelle), Choeur Gulbenkian, Orchestre de Paris, direction: Serge Baudo

observations

Grand choeur de 100 chanteurs divisés en 10 voix.

Part titles

1er septénaire :

1. Récit évangélique

2. Configuratum corpori claritatis suae. Méditation

3. Christus Jesus, splendor Patris.

4. Récit évangélique.

5. Quam dilecta tabernacula tua.

6. Candor est lucis aeternae.

7.Choral de la Sainte Montagne


2e septénaire :

8. Récit évangélique

9. Perfecte conscius illius perfectae generationis.

10. Adoptionem filiorum perfectam.

11. Récit évangélique.

12. Terribilis est locus iste.

13. Tota Trinitas apparuit.

14. Choral de la Lumière de Gloire


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