Glossily packaged as the "Official CD of the Vatican City to celebrate Holy Year 2000", this collection of four Te Deum settings is effectively a souvenir in sound and too much of an up-market dog's dinner to please listeners sensitive to the stylistic niceties of any one of the composers represented. If you want a seriously 17th-century French baroque approach to the Charpentier Te Deum, you'd be better off with William Christie on Harmonia Mundi. And for an idiomatic response to the spring-loaded splendours of the Verdi Te Deum (one of the Four Sacred Pieces the composer turned to late in life) there's John Eliot Gardiner on Philips. But at least the readings here deliver some sense of occasion. There's a crisp, bright buoyancy in the famous militaristic fanfares of the Charpentier, otherwise known as a signature tune for European TV broadcasts. The Mozart--remarkable as the work of a 13-year-old but otherwise unspectacular--gets considerate handling. And although Chung's soloists aren't special, the ensemble singing has a certain strength in the austerely spacious 1985 Te Deum by Arvo Pärt. --Michael White --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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