Puccini: Messa di Gloria - Preludio sinfonico - Crisantemi Tomislav Mužek, George Petean, Munich Radio Orchestra and Bavarian Radio Chorus & Ivan Repušić

• Giacomo Puccini (1858 - 1924): Messa di Gloria:
• 1 Puccini: Messa di Gloria: Kyrie eleison (Live) 05:25
• 2 Puccini: Messa di Gloria: Gloria in excelsis (Live) 04:36
• 3 Puccini: Messa di Gloria: Gratias agimus tibi (live) 04:59
• 4 Puccini: Messa di Gloria: Qui tollis peccata mundi (Live) 04:18
• 5 Puccini: Messa di Gloria: Quoniam tu solus sanctus (live) 01:08
• 6 Puccini: Messa di Gloria: Cum Sancto Spiritu (Live) 04:07
• 7 Puccini: Messa di Gloria: Credo in unum Deum (Live) 03:07
• 8 Puccini: Messa di Gloria: Et incarnatus est (Live) 02:20
• 9 Puccini: Messa di Gloria: Crucifixus (Live) 02:47
• 10 Puccini: Messa di Gloria: Et resurrexit (Live) 06:18
• 11 Puccini: Messa di Gloria: Sanctus (Live) 01:17
• 12 Puccini: Messa di Gloria: Benedictus (Live) 02:17
• 13 Puccini: Messa di Gloria: Agnus Dei (Live) 02:35
• Preludio sinfonico, SC 32:
• 14 Puccini: Preludio sinfonico, SC 32 08:28
• Crisantemi, SC 65 (Arr. for String Orchestra by Lucas Drew):
• 15 Puccini: Crisantemi, SC 65 (Arr. for String Orchestra by Lucas Drew) 06:38
• Total Runtime 01:00:20

Info for Puccini: Messa di Gloria - Preludio sinfonico - Crisantemi

Puccini's "Messa di Gloria" is one of the most popular settings of the Latin Mass and can also be found on many concert programmes in the Puccini year 2024. The musical quality, energy and freshness of this youthful work ensured its steadily growing popularity after its rediscovery in the early 1950s. The composer even quoted some of the melodies later in his famous operas, particularly in "Manon Lescaut". The "Messa di Gloria" was performed very recently on June 27, 2024 in the Herz-Jesu-Kirche in Munich by the Bavarian Radio Chorus and the Münchner Rundfunkorchester under its chief conductor Ivan Repušić.

To mark the 100th anniversary of the great Italian composer's death, BR-KLASSIK is now presenting the live recording of this outstanding concert. Giacomo Puccini wrote his "Messa a quattro voci con orchestra" ("Mass for four voices with orchestra") between 1878 and 1880 as the final thesis of his music studies in his hometown of Lucca. The first preparatory work was done when he was only eighteen, and the young composer was just 21 years old when the work was first performed on July 12, 1880. The mass remained unpublished during his lifetime but became immensely popular after its rediscovery in the early 1950s. However, it was inaccurately labelled "Messa di Gloria" in the first printed edition and at later performances, a term that in fact refers to a (usually shorter) composition consisting solely of Kyrie and Gloria; Puccini's mass is in fact a full-fledged work, the complete setting of the Latin Ordinary with Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus/Benedictus and Agnus Dei. Puccini had begun his work on the Credo as early as 1878. In the "Messa di Gloria", the choir takes centre stage with melodies that become increasingly beautiful; the solo parts for tenor and baritone are sung by Tomislav Mužek and George Petean. The approximately 45-minute-long work is complemented on this album by Puccini's orchestral works "Preludio sinfonico" and "Crisantemi" - the latter in the arrangement for string orchestra by Lucas Drew.

Tomislav Muzek, tenor
George Petean, baritone
Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Münchner Rundfunkorchester
Ivan Repusic, conductor

Tomislav Mužek
is in demand worldwide for a wide-ranging repertoire of the lyric-dramatic tenor repertoire, which includes Russian, French and Czech roles in addition to a focus on German and Italian works.

With his role debut as Lohengrin at the Theatro Municipal de São Paulo in 2015, he consolidated his transition into this repertoire, having previously celebrated success as a lyric tenor. Since then, he has sung roles such as Erik, Stolzing, Max, Rodolfo, Don Carlo, Don José and the Prince in Rusalka, as well as Cavaradossi, Pinkerton and Edgardo.

In the 2024/25 season, he will sing Erik in Der fliegende Holländer, Rodolfo in La bohème and Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly at the Semperoper Dresden. He will be heard as Pinkerton also at the Zurich Opera House and as the Prince in Rusalka at the Croatian National Opera in Zagreb. Together with the Spanish National Orchestra under Simone Young, he will perform Szymanowski’s Symphony No. 3 “Song of the Night”, and with the Bavarian Radio Orchestra under Ivan Repušić Boris Papandopulo’s Croatian Mass.

After appearing as Erik at the Bayreuth Festival in the summer of 2023, he sang Max (Der Freischütz) and the title role in Verdi’s Don Carlo at the Semperoper Dresden, the Prince (Rusalka) at the Opéra national de Bordeaux and Stolzing (Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg) at the Teatro Real in Madrid in the 2023/24 season. On the concert stage, he performed Verdi’s Requiem in Zurich and Puccini’s Missa di Gloria in Munich.

Tomislav Mužek has been closely associated with the Semperoper Dresden since 2005, where he has thrilled audiences in roles such as Rodolfo (La bohème), Don Ottavio (Don Giovanni), Tamino (Die Zauberflöte), the king’s son (Die Königskinder), Lenski (Eugene Onegin), Florestan (Fidelio), the Prince (Rusalka), Stolzing (Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg) and Max (Der Freischütz). In September 2023, Tomislav Mužek was awarded the “Rudi Häussler Prize” by the Semperoper Foundation.

As a guest artist, Tomislav Mužek has appeared on almost all major European stages, such as the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, Opéra national de Paris, Hamburg State Opera, Berlin State Opera, Teatro Real Madrid, Vienna State Opera, Volksoper Vienna, Teatro Comunale Florence, Teatro Comunale Bologna, Teatro Regio Turin, Teatro San Carlo Naples, Teatro Carlo Felice Genoa, New National Theatre Tokyo, Zurich Opera House, Grand Theatre de Genève, Théâtre du Capitole Toulouse and at the Bayreuth Festival.

He has worked with renowned conductors such as Riccardo Muti, Myung Wun Chung, Gianandrea Noseda, Gustavo Dudamel, Ottavio Dantone, Pierre Boulez, Christian Thielemann, Peter Schneider, Jonathan Darlington, Zubin Mehta, Sebastian Weigle, Ivor Bolton, Omer Meir Welber, Christopher Hogwood, Christoph v. Eschenbach, Manfred Honeck and many others.

Tomislav Mužek is also a sought-after concert singer and recitalist. For example, he sang Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis under Bernard Haitink with the Berlin Philharmonic at the 2007 Salzburg Easter Festival, as well as Dvorak’s Stabat Mater under Christoph von Eschenbach with the Staatskapelle Dresden in 2019.

In April 1999, he won first prize at the international “Ferruccio Tagliavini” singing competition in Austria. Following this, he was engaged as a lyric tenor at the Vienna State Opera in the 1999/2000 season and subsequently at the Theater Bremen until 2002. There he sang roles such as Don Ottavio, Ferrando, Alfredo, Rodolfo and Tamino.

Tomislav Mužek was born in Siegen and studied at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, where he studied lied and oratorio in the class of KS Robert Holl.

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