Gounod Messe Solennelle (Ste Cecile) for Soloists, Choir and Orchestra Limited Offer

Editor: Schellevis, Hans

Orchestral scoring : SSolo/TSolo/BSolo/Mixed choir(SSAB)/Fl-picc/2Fl/2Ob/2clarinet/4bassoon/4Hn/2Kor/2Trp/3trombone/timpani/Be/Tr-Gr/harp/2V/Va/Vc/double bass/Octobass/Org

Language(s) of work: L

Language(s) of text: L

Product format: score, Urtext edition

Binding: Paperback

Pages / Format: X, 146 – 31,0 x 24,3 cm

Sacred works occupy a large part of Charles Gounod’s oeuvre. It was the Messe solennelle en l’honneur de Sainte Cécile that established his fame as a church composer. Its melodic invention and effective handling of the orchestra reveal a close proximity to opera.

This Urtext edition is based not only on the original print of 1856 but also on copyists’ manuscripts and autograph sources. Rounding off this well-researched Urtext edition are an informative Introduction and a detailed Critical Commentary. The edition is being published to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Gounod’s birth.

• Gounod’s well-known mass in a new Urtext edition
• Bilingual Foreword (Ger/Eng) and Critical Commentary (Eng)
• Idiomatic piano reduction
• In preparation for the Gounod bicentenary year 2018