TE DEUM (Berlioz, Lully) Budapest 2018 Attila Fekete, Gabriella Szili, Dávid Szigetvári, József Gál, Thomáš Šelc

Information on the Performance

• Work Title: Te Deum  
• Composer: Berlioz Hector, Lully Jean-Baptiste   
• Libretto: traditional  
• Venue & Opera Company: müpa, Budapest, Hungary  
• Recorded: November 8, 2018
• Type: Concert Live
• Singers: Attila Fekete, Gabriella Szili, Dávid Szigetvári, József Gál, Thomáš Šelc
• Conductor: Janos Kovacs  
• Orchestra: Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra  
• Chorus: Hungarian Radio Symphony Choir, Hungarian Radio Children's Choir, Kodály Choir Debrecen, Men's Corps of the Honvéd, Children's Chorus of the Bulgarian National Radio, Children's Faculty of Erkel Ferenc Primary School, Children's Faculty of the Marczibányi tér Kodály School  
• Chorus Master: Zoltán Pad, Judit Walter, Máté Sipos Szabó, Kálmán Strausz, Venecia Karamazova, Valéria Szebellédi, Csilla Őri)  
• Stage Director:   
• Costume Designer:   

Information about the Recording

• Published by: M5  
• Date Published: 2018  
• Format: Broadcast
• Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
• Subtitles: nosubs  
• This Recording is NOT AVAILABLE from a proper commercial or public source
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE

The Te Deum (Op. 22 / H.118) by Hector Berlioz (1803–1869) was completed in 1849. Like the earlier and more famous Grande Messe des Morts, it is one of the works referred to by Berlioz in his Memoirs as “the enormous compositions which some critics have called architectural or monumental music.” While the orchestral forces required for the Te Deum are not as titanic as those of the Requiem, the work calls for an organ that can compete on equal terms with the rest of the orchestra. It lasts approximately fifty minutes and derives its text from the traditional Latin Te Deum, although Berlioz changed the word order for dramatic purposes.