Gounod was quite the young, thrusting entrepreneur in 1854. He would have been thirty-six years old and appeared to have been keen to get himself noticed wherever it might be possible. Operas, theatre ...
Celebrating St Cecilia’s Day on its eve, with music by Gounod in that most splendid of cathedrals packed for the occasion, would have been unthinkable without his Messe Solennelle de Ste Cécile. It ...
The New Ross Singers are singing Gounod’s St Cecilia Mass on Saturday, April 1, just in time for Easter. St Cecilia is the patron saint of music, and Gounod certainly pulled out all stops with this ...