Michael Haydn: Pro Festo Innocentium Masses & Vesper

This recording presents three large scale liturgical works: the Missa sub titulo Sancti Leopoldi MH 837, the Missa Sancti Aloysii MH 257 and the Vesper in F MH 548.

Composer: Johann Michael Haydn
Artists: Genova Vocal Ensemble, Accademia Vocale di Genova, Roberta Paraninfo (conductor)

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From 1763 until his death in 1806, Johann Michael Haydn worked in the service of the Archbishop of Salzburg – almost as long a period of service as that of his brother Joseph to the princely family in Esterhazy. During the course of those 43 years, he bridged the stylistic gap between early Classicism and the Biedermeier style. Indeed, he was initially regarded by contemporaries as equal in talent to Joseph. Only the older brother’s steep rise to become the most important instrumental composer of his day somewhat overshadowed Johann Michael Haydn. In recent years his music has been rediscovered, and he has increasingly been recognized again. His output includes more than thirty works in Latin or German for two or three lines of upper voices, composed for his ‘dear choirboys’ singing at the cathedral in Salzburg. The first setting of the ordinary in this series was the Missa Sancti Aloysii, composed in 1777. It was initially intended for the Commemoration of the Holy Innocents on 28 December, when the chapel boys celebrated their principal feast day. This exceptionally charming mass is marked throughout by a wonderfully effervescent sense of joy.

At the other end of his career, the Missa sub titulo Sti. Leopoldi pro festo Innocentium was Michael Haydn’s last completed work, finished on 22 December 1805 in time to celebrate the same feast day as the earlier Mass, despite the composer’s ill health, and drawing strength (according to the composer) from the optimistic character of his pupils. Complementing these two Mass settings, the Accademia Vocale di Genova and Roberta Paraninfo present a complete recording of the Vespers which Haydn wrote for the Feast of the Holy Innocents in 1787.
Though these attractive choral rarities have been recorded before, this is the only album to present all three complementary works together, and in modern recordings informed by the scale and performance practice which the composer himself would have known. Roberta Paraninfo founded the Accademia Vocale di Genova in 1995, and they have specialised ever since then in choral works of the Renaissance, Baroque and Classical periods.

Tracklist:
Missa sub titulo Sancti Leopoldi, MH 837:
00:00:00 I. Kyrie
00:01:50 II. Gloria
00:04:53 III. Credo
00:10:04 IV. Sanctus
00:11:21 V. Benedictus
00:14:35 VI. Agnus dei. Agnus dei qui tollis
00:16:43 VII. Agnus dei. Dona nobis

Vesper in F Major, MH 548:
00:19:18 I. Dixit dominus
00:22:19 II. Confitebor
00:25:47 III. Beatus vir
00:29:44 IV. De profundis
00:32:52 V. Memento
00:37:31 VI. Hymnus
00:39:05 VII. Magnificat

Missa sancti aloysii, MH 257:
00:43:57 I. Kyrie
00:46:31 II. Gloria
00:51:36 III. Credo. Credo in unum deum
00:53:39 IV. Credo. Et incarnatus est
00:56:31 V. Credo. Et resurrexit
01:00:23 VI. Sanctus
01:02:08 VII. Benedictus
01:06:57 VIII. Agnus dei. Agnus dei, qui tollis
01:08:38 IX. Agnus dei. Dona nobis

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