Gilles: Messe des morts - Capella Cracoviensis and Capriccio Stravagante - Early Music Festival 

This has to be one of the most perfect pieces and performances for contemplation and prayer, reaching deep into one's heart and indeed our human reality...

Yo no puedo pensar en nada que iguale esta música tan preciosa y celestial y doy gracias a DIOS OMNPOTENTE

Waking up listeners - Capriccio Stravagante is world-renowned for their memorable interpretations of Renaissance and Baroque music. Founded in 1986 by Skip Sempé, the ensemble of three to seventy performers incorporates Capriccio Stravagante, the Capriccio Stravagante Renaissance Orchestra and Capriccio Stravagante Les 24 Violons. By the mid 1990s, the ensemble had built up an extensive discography for which they received international acclaim and had performed in major concert halls and festivals worldwide. Nonchalance & Power - The ensembles seek a musical aesthetic whose values have been nearly lost to contemporary musical life. Unlike many other early music ensembles, they adhere to traditional principles of articulation, rhetoric, scholarship, imagination and talent to break down conventions that have little to do with historical practice, particularly those originating in twentieth-century ‘Baroque’ performance practices. Capriccio Stravagante has recorded extensively for the Paradizo, Deutsche Harmonia Mundi, Astrée, Alpha and Teldec labels. Man-made beauty - The Capriccio Stravagante Renaissance Orchestra offers virtuoso performers on a highly distinctive musical instrumentarium that includes violins, viols, recorders, cornetti, sackbuts, krummhorns, shawms, lutes, harps, harpsichords, virginals, organs, and percussion. Derived from the instrumental virtuosity that sixteenth-century music demanded, their playing techniques are completely unknown to classically trained instrumentalists and mainstream audiences today. The ensemble is the largest and most luxurious gathering yet assembled for the performance of masterpieces from this Golden Age of musical creativity. Awards & Rewards - Capriccio Stravagante’s exceptional chamber ensemble playing has inspired three generations of musicians, many of whom have gone on to enjoy international careers. The Capriccio Stravagante Prize was created by Skip Sempé in 1997, and served to encourage numerous musicians in their early careers. It is particularly touching that many of those musicians have now become an integral part of Capriccio Stravagante’s activities. Sempé receives lasting inspiration from the key members of these renewed generations.

The entire performance bespeaks richness and quality. Notice that the great Skip Sempe does not throw himself around in a look-at-me style so beloved of some other conductors and he also knows when to simply stand motionless and allow the music to flow from the professional musicians! Most enlightening!

JEAN GILLES { TARASCON 1668~1705 TOULOUSE } « JEAN GILLES : MESSE DES MORTS - CAPELLA CRACOVIENSIS AND CAPRICCIO STRAVAGANTE - EARLY MUSIC FESTIVAL « Que c’est beau, magnifique interprétation voix vocale et musique instrumentale de LA CAPELLA CRACOVIENSIS , cette ensemble de musique symphonique et chœur mixte polonais de Cracovie formée en 1970, par le compositeur, musicologue et chef d’orchestre STANISLAW GALONSKI, spécialisée dans la musique ancienne jouée sur instruments d’époque. Et le CAPRICCIO STRAVAGANTE ensemble de musique Baroque fondé en 1986 par SKIP SEMPE, ensemble français de musique de chambre dédié au répertoire instrumental des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècle qui acquiert aussitôt une renommée internationale, bravo à ses deux ensemble. Quelle chef-d’œuvre le « REQUIEM de JEAN GILLES « , c’est par ce titre que le mélodrame fait presque toujours la connaissance de ce compositeur méridional emblématique du Baroque musical français. En effet, la réputation de cette MESSE DES MORTS, nourrie autant par une belle légende que par une qualité artistique exceptionnelle, aura attribué à son auteur une gloire posthume toujours vivace. Merci pour ce grand moment de musique Baroque grandiose, avec ce grand compositeur du XVIIe siècle JEAN GILLES, et ses deux grands ensembles magnifiques CAPELLA CRACOVIENSIS et CAPRICCIO STRAVAGANTE, que j’ai énormément apprécié bravo à tous.

Des mélodies plutôt qu un trop savant contrepoint Un ensemble aux sonorités et à la parfaite maîtrise Magnifique

Glorious music and wonderful performance indeed! Bravo to all.

Wie schön und lebendig die französiche Messe klingt! Weit entfernt vom Tod. Der Kontratenor singt echt ausgezeichnet. Einfach wunderbar!

Très belle interprétation de ce chef-d’œuvre oublié en France !

Jean Hyacinthe Theodore Gilles (8 January 1668 - 5 February 1705) was a French composer, born at Tarascon. Thank you for this excellent upload..!

Einen❤️❤️❤️❤️ herzlichen Dank und viele Grüße an das ganze Ensemble und an AVROTROS Klasiek und einen schönen Sonntag Abend Grüße ich aus Schallstadt südlich von Freiburg Joachim Ehlers

Concert magnifique d'une musique sublime.....J'apprécie la sobriété et la retenue du chef

A great joy of not knowing is the discovery of something wonderful. Never heard this before, never even heard of Gilles. Thank you for uploading this wonderful work and performance!

Beautiful!

Honestly it s very nice. Abadie❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

Great performance - balanced drama and subtleness, seamless orchestra and (beautiful) voices

Quelle merveille! - Le concert, ainsi que le chef d'oevre meme!

Excelente coro, orquesta y solistas en una obra que muchos desconocíamos.

Simplement "SUPERBE" .

A la excelente interpretación musical se une la impecable fonética del latín eclesiástico.

Muchas gracias y saludos cordiales desde Mallorca para vosotros

Such an amazing performance!! Thanks for uploading.

Jean Gilles is basically an unknown composer outside France, great Baroque composer and musician, his famous Requiem to honor Rameau is performed here by the awesome harphsicordist Skip Sempe, brilliant performance.

! bravo !

Wonderful!!

Magnífica.

Fantastisch, ik zat achter het podium en kan nu alle musici eindelijk zien. Gisteravond al genoten van het concert en nu opnieuw! Dank, AvroTros (zeg ik als Vara/VPRO-lid).

Interesting to hear this version made more than 50 years after Gilles composed this excellent requiem. It shows that the original work was way better. The horns and drums give it a kitsch feel that it surely doesn't need.

¡Soberbio! Superb!

Hartelijk dank wederom AVRO/TROS vor deze opname om nog even na te genieten. Dank aan Skip Sempe dat hij de (blok)fluiten aan de andere kant van het orkest achter de violen had gezet. Briljant als je rechts voor het podium zit want ze waren hard zat. Hulde voor de uitvoering en de registratie.

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Par contre le Latin prononcé à l'italienne sur Séjour de l'éternel paix est au delà de la faute de goût, un vrai sacrilège. La musette des Fêtes d'Hébé en introduction ❤️ La plus belle de Rameau

I sung this Requiem in 2009, and I don't remember having sung ANY of whay I hear here whatsoever.

Very beautiful, and one of the greatest values of this performance is the good pronunciation of latin, instead of the horrible french pronunciation.

Oh how I miss the characteristic extra measure in the Introitus! It creates such a sense of longing, Inne-Halten, … e.g. @11:36 How dare they slash it? What a shame… it sounds rushed to me. Still a great performance of course! :)

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So actually this is nearly completely copy and paste of Rameau?