Andrea Macinanti - Marco Enrico Bossi: Missa pro defunctis, Op. 83 (2012)

The Mass - rigorously conceived a cappella - fully fulfilled the aspirations of the "Cecilian Movement" in referring to the models of Renaissance polyphony (the return to the ancient dear to G. Verdi) reinterpreted, however, with plasticity and inventiveness.
While Tebaldini adhered to the guidelines of Gregorian chant, Bossi drew only inspiration from it, creating from scratch the themes on which the famous text by T. da Celano [1190ca.- 1260ca.] Is developed and harmonizing them freely.
This is particularly evident in the Hostias et praeces of the Offertory, in the entrance to the Sanctus (in which the spirit of Monteverdi hovers), in the Hosanna and in the Cum Sanctis tuis which culminates in a very powerful sound effect.
Subsequently Bossi also composed the Requiem, Kyrie and Dies Irae, providing for the ad libitum intervention of the organ (or harmonium) in support of the vocal parts; the Mass thus accomplished was repeated again at the Pantheon, on March 14, 1906, on the occasion of the memorial ceremony of Umberto I