About this concert
Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle in its original chamber form, with piano, in the Prince Mohamed Ali Palace in Manial, a palace built between 1899 and 1929 that mixes Ottoman, Moorish and Persian styles. Under Nayer Nagui the soloists were Mona Rafla, Jolie Faizy, Ragaa El-Din Ahmed and Emad Adel, with Greig Martin at the piano. The concert had been set for 5 February and was postponed.
Programme
- Work
- Rossini: Petite Messe Solennelle
About the music
Gioachino Rossini, Petite Messe Solennelle
- Composed in 1863 at Passy, near Paris, when Rossini was about 71, decades after his last opera.
- Scored for twelve singers, two pianos and harmonium; first performed on 14 March 1864 in the Paris home of the Comtesse Louise de Pillet-Will, its dedicatee.
- Rossini wrote on the score: “Dear Lord, here it is finished, this poor little mass.”
- He orchestrated it in 1867; that version was first heard in 1869, three months after his death.
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