Mozart: Requiem in D Minor, K. 626 mit Werkeinführung (Live) Alte Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks & Howard Arman

• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791):
• 1 Ecce sacerdos magnus - Organ Intonation (Live) 00:23
• 2 Vesperae solennes de confessore, K. 339: I. Dixit Dominus (Live) 03:47
• 3 Ecce sacerdos magnus (Live) 00:18
• 4 Non est inventus - Organ Intonation (Live) 00:18
• 5 Vesperae solennes de confessore, K. 339: II. Confitebor (Live) 04:08
• 6 Non est inventus (Live) 00:18
• 7 Ideo jurejurando - Organ Intonation (Live) 00:14
• 8 Vesperae solennes de confessore, K. 339: III. Beatus vir (Live) 04:32
• 9 Ideo jurejurando (Live) 00:19
• 10 Sacerdotes Dei - Organ Intonation (Live) 00:27
• 11 Vesperae solennes de confessore, K. 339: IV. Laudate pueri (Live) 03:21
• 12 Sacerdotes Dei (Live) 00:22
• 13 Serve bone et fidelis - Organ Intonation (Live) 00:22
• 14 Vesperae solennes de confessore, K. 339: V. Laudate Dominum (Live) 04:19
• 15 Serve bone et fidelis (Live) 00:20
• 16 Dum esset summus pontifex - Organ Intonation (Live) 00:28
• 17 Vesperae solennes de confessore, K. 339: VI. Magnificat (Live) 04:00
• 18 Dum esset summus pontifex (Live) 00:34
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Requiem in D Minor, K. 626 (Completed by H. Arman & F.X. Süssmayr):
• 19 Requiem in D Minor, K. 626 (Completed by H. Arman & F.X. Süssmayr): I. Introitus. Requiem aeternam [Live] 04:39
• 20 Requiem in D Minor, K. 626 (Completed by H. Arman & F.X. Süssmayr): II. Kyrie eleison [Live] 02:21
• 21 Requiem in D Minor, K. 626 (Completed by H. Arman & F.X. Süssmayr): IIIa. Sequenz. Dies irae [Live] 01:51
• 22 Requiem in D Minor, K. 626 (Completed by H. Arman & F.X. Süssmayr): IIIb. Sequenz. Tuba mirum [Live] 02:53
• 23 Requiem in D Minor, K. 626 (Completed by H. Arman & F.X. Süssmayr): IIIc. Sequenz. Rex tremendae [Live] 01:45
• 24 Requiem in D Minor, K. 626 (Completed by H. Arman & F.X. Süssmayr): IIId. Sequenz. Recordare [Live] 04:34
• 25 Requiem in D Minor, K. 626 (Completed by H. Arman & F.X. Süssmayr): IIIe. Sequenz. Confutatis [Live] 02:17
• 26 Requiem in D Minor, K. 626 (Completed by H. Arman & F.X. Süssmayr): IIIf. Sequenz. Lacrimosa [Live] 03:28
• 27 Requiem in D Minor, K. 626 (Completed by H. Arman & F.X. Süssmayr): IVa. Offertorium. Domine Jesu [Live] 03:28
• 28 Requiem in D Minor, K. 626 (Completed by H. Arman & F.X. Süssmayr): IVb. Offertorium. Hostias [Live] 02:05
• 29 Requiem in D Minor, K. 626 (Completed by H. Arman & F.X. Süssmayr): IVc. Offertorium. Quam olim abrahae [Live] 01:43
• 30 Requiem in D Minor, K. 626 (Completed by H. Arman & F.X. Süssmayr): V. Sanctus [Live] 01:21
• 31 Requiem in D Minor, K. 626 (Completed by H. Arman & F.X. Süssmayr): VI. Benedictus [Live] 04:40
• 32 Requiem in D Minor, K. 626 (Completed by H. Arman & F.X. Süssmayr): VII. Agnus Dei [Live] 02:45
• 33 Requiem in D Minor, K. 626 (Completed by H. Arman & F.X. Süssmayr): VIII. Communio. Lux aeterna [Live] 05:08
• Sigismund Ritter von Neukomm (1778 - 1858): Libera me, Domine:
• 34 Libera me, Domine: Libera me, Domine (1) [Live] 01:33
• 35 Libera me, Domine: Tremens factus sum ego (Live) 00:55
• 36 Libera me, Domine: Quando coeli movendi sunt (Live) 00:38
• 37 Libera me, Domine: Dies illa (Live) 00:55
• 38 Libera me, Domine: Requiem aeternam (Live) 01:40
• 39 Libera me, Domine: Libera me, Domine (2) [Live] 01:36
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Wege zur Musik, Mozart Requiem in D Minor, K. 626, Teil 1 "Tod und Verklärung":
• 40 Wege zur Musik, Mozart Requiem in D Minor, K. 626, Teil 1 "Tod und Verklärung": Eine neue Vervollständigung 04:11
• 41 Wege zur Musik, Mozart Requiem in D Minor, K. 626, Teil 1 "Tod und Verklärung": Die tragische Tonart 04:04
• 42 Wege zur Musik, Mozart Requiem in D Minor, K. 626, Teil 1 "Tod und Verklärung": Der graue Bote 03:32
• 43 Wege zur Musik, Mozart Requiem in D Minor, K. 626, Teil 1 "Tod und Verklärung": Der wahre Endzweck unseres Lebens 05:39
• 44 Wege zur Musik, Mozart Requiem in D Minor, K. 626, Teil 1 "Tod und Verklärung": Dokument des Verschwindens 06:46
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Wege zur Musik, Mozart Requiem in D Minor, K. 626, Teil 2 "Lückenfüller":
• 45 Wege zur Musik, Mozart Requiem in D Minor, K. 626, Teil 2 "Lückenfüller": Anonymus 05:10
• 46 Wege zur Musik, Mozart Requiem in D Minor, K. 626, Teil 2 "Lückenfüller": Das Fragment 06:40
• 47 Wege zur Musik, Mozart Requiem in D Minor, K. 626, Teil 2 "Lückenfüller": Klangfarben als Symbol 04:53
• 48 Wege zur Musik, Mozart Requiem in D Minor, K. 626, Teil 2 "Lückenfüller": Remplissage 03:59
• 49 Wege zur Musik, Mozart Requiem in D Minor, K. 626, Teil 2 "Lückenfüller": Herausforderung Fuge 07:00
• 50 Wege zur Musik, Mozart Requiem in D Minor, K. 626, Teil 2 "Lückenfüller": Berufliche Perspektiven 02:58
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Wege zur Musik, Mozart Requiem in D Minor, K. 626, Teil 3 "Mythos und Manuskript":
• 51 Wege zur Musik, Mozart Requiem in D Minor, K. 626, Teil 3 "Mythos und Manuskript": Süßmayr 03:35
• 52 Wege zur Musik, Mozart Requiem in D Minor, K. 626, Teil 3 "Mythos und Manuskript": Eybler 02:51
• 53 Wege zur Musik, Mozart Requiem in D Minor, K. 626, Teil 3 "Mythos und Manuskript": Urschrift und Erstdruck 04:31
• 54 Wege zur Musik, Mozart Requiem in D Minor, K. 626, Teil 3 "Mythos und Manuskript": Der Requiemstreit 03:01
• 55 Wege zur Musik, Mozart Requiem in D Minor, K. 626, Teil 3 "Mythos und Manuskript": Libera me 04:13
• Total Runtime 02:33:48

Info for Mozart: Requiem in D Minor, K. 626 mit Werkeinführung (Live)

The version submitted by Howard Arman for the Bavarian Radio Chorus is based on surviving Mozart sources as well as on Süßmayr's additions; in several places, however, it reaches new conclusions that are implemented with due caution and humble respect for Mozart's magnificent original. Mozart's Requiem is followed by Neukomm's Respond Libera me, Domine – and for musical, liturgical and chronological reasons, the programme begins with Mozart's Vesperae solennes de Confessore KV 339 (1780), composed of psalms from the Old Testament as well as the Magnificat from the Gospel of St Luke and composed for the liturgical festival of a holy confessor.

Howard Arman has prepended Mozart’s movements for the festival vespers with antiphons taken from the vespers De Confessore Pontifici (for a confessor who was a bishop) of the Gregorian Liber usualis, and has also composed his own organ intonations to enhance the antiphons. Although it remained incomplete as Mozart’s last work, the Requiem in D minor (1791) ranks as one of the most important settings of the Latin Mass for the Dead ever written.

Immediately after Mozart's all too premature death, his pupil Franz Xaver Süßmayr elaborated a completed version that is still appreciated and regularly performed to this day because of its close proximity to the original – and this despite a number of new adaptations created over the years that sometimes add cautious improvements to the Süßmayr version or instead follow their own lights entirely. – Mozart’s Requiem KV 626 from 1791 is followed by Sigismund von Neukomm's Libera me, Domine, the Respond from the Liturgy of Exequies composed by Neukomm in 1821 as a liturgical completion of Mozart's Requiem for a performance in Rio de Janeiro (the Salzburg composer Neukomm had emigrated to Brazil in 1816).

Christina Landshamer, soprano
Sophie Harmsen, mezzosoprano
Julian Prégardien, tenor
Tareq Nazmi, bass
Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin
Howard Arman, direction

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