Messe à la mémoire de Jeanne d'Arc, CG 74 (Score) Ballad for chorus and orchestra The technical demands made on

The technical demands made on the vocal soloists (and also on the instrumentalists) are no greater in the soli than in the tutti sections

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Prelude in E minor BWV 555

Both parts of the cantata end with a chorale movement with different verses from the Lutheran hymn “Es woll uns Gott genädig sein”

Messe à la mémoire de Jeanne d'Arc, CG 74 (Score) Ballad for chorus and orchestra The technical demands made onGounods Messe la mmoire de Jeanne dArc was composed in 1887 for a festive mass in Reims to commemorate the arrival of the national heroine in the city on the occasion of the coronation of Charles VII in 1429. Performed a cappella or only accompanied by an organ, vast stretches of the work are in an archaic style in the tradition of Palestrina. The royal procession into the cathedral is conveyed in the splendid Prlude at the beginning, which was