Aspen Music Festival: Season Finale: Berlioz Requiem with Seraphic Fire and Kantorei

"The season finale offers a monumental, rarely performed work designed for a 188-piece orchestra a 210-member chorus. Berlioz sought to create a profound communal experience, “mankind gathered together on the last day,” and one by which the listener would be “shaken to the depths of his soul.” The audience had to feel the sound –something 400 performers could accomplish. Top off the season with a full-throated work that combines the dramatic and the spiritual in a colossal ocean of sound."

BERLIOZ: Grande messe des morts, op. 5

With Robert Spano, conductor; Zach Borichevsky, tenor; Seraphic Fire Professional Choral Institute, and Kantorei.