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):
• 1Ecce sacerdos magnus - Organ Intonation (Live)00:23
• 2Vesperae solennes de confessore, K. 339: I. Dixit Dominus (Live)03:47
• 3Ecce sacerdos magnus (Live)00:18
• 4Non est inventus - Organ Intonation (Live)00:18
• 5Vesperae solennes de confessore, K. 339: II. Confitebor (Live)04:08
• 6Non est inventus (Live)00:18
• 7Ideo jurejurando - Organ Intonation (Live)00:14
• 8Vesperae solennes de confessore, K. 339: III. Beatus vir (Live)04:32
• 9Ideo jurejurando (Live)00:19
• 10Sacerdotes Dei - Organ Intonation (Live)00:27
• 11Vesperae solennes de confessore, K. 339: IV. Laudate pueri (Live)03:21
• 12Sacerdotes Dei (Live)00:22
• 13Serve bone et fidelis - Organ Intonation (Live)00:22
• 14Vesperae solennes de confessore, K. 339: V. Laudate Dominum (Live)04:19
• 15Serve bone et fidelis (Live)00:20
• 16Dum esset summus pontifex - Organ Intonation (Live)00:28
• 17Vesperae solennes de confessore, K. 339: VI. Magnificat (Live)04:00
• 18Dum esset summus pontifex (Live)00:34
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Requiem in D Minor, K. 626 (Completed by H. Arman & F.X. Süssmayr):
• 19Requiem in D Minor, K. 626 (Completed by H. Arman & F.X. Süssmayr): I. Introitus. Requiem aeternam [Live]04:39
• 20Requiem in D Minor, K. 626 (Completed by H. Arman & F.X. Süssmayr): II. Kyrie eleison [Live]02:21
• 21Requiem in D Minor, K. 626 (Completed by H. Arman & F.X. Süssmayr): IIIa. Sequenz. Dies irae [Live]01:51
• 22Requiem in D Minor, K. 626 (Completed by H. Arman & F.X. Süssmayr): IIIb. Sequenz. Tuba mirum [Live]02:53
• 23Requiem in D Minor, K. 626 (Completed by H. Arman & F.X. Süssmayr): IIIc. Sequenz. Rex tremendae [Live]01:45
• 24Requiem in D Minor, K. 626 (Completed by H. Arman & F.X. Süssmayr): IIId. Sequenz. Recordare [Live]04:34
• 25Requiem in D Minor, K. 626 (Completed by H. Arman & F.X. Süssmayr): IIIe. Sequenz. Confutatis [Live]02:17
• 26Requiem in D Minor, K. 626 (Completed by H. Arman & F.X. Süssmayr): IIIf. Sequenz. Lacrimosa [Live]03:28
• 27Requiem in D Minor, K. 626 (Completed by H. Arman & F.X. Süssmayr): IVa. Offertorium. Domine Jesu [Live]03:28
• 28Requiem in D Minor, K. 626 (Completed by H. Arman & F.X. Süssmayr): IVb. Offertorium. Hostias [Live]02:05
• 29Requiem in D Minor, K. 626 (Completed by H. Arman & F.X. Süssmayr): IVc. Offertorium. Quam olim abrahae [Live]01:43
• 30Requiem in D Minor, K. 626 (Completed by H. Arman & F.X. Süssmayr): V. Sanctus [Live]01:21
• 31Requiem in D Minor, K. 626 (Completed by H. Arman & F.X. Süssmayr): VI. Benedictus [Live]04:40
• 32Requiem in D Minor, K. 626 (Completed by H. Arman & F.X. Süssmayr): VII. Agnus Dei [Live]02:45
• 33Requiem 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:
• 34Libera me, Domine: Libera me, Domine (1) [Live]01:33
• 35Libera me, Domine: Tremens factus sum ego (Live)00:55
• 36Libera me, Domine: Quando coeli movendi sunt (Live)00:38
• 37Libera me, Domine: Dies illa (Live)00:55
• 38Libera me, Domine: Requiem aeternam (Live)01:40
• 39Libera 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":
• 40Wege zur Musik, Mozart Requiem in D Minor, K. 626, Teil 1 "Tod und Verklärung": Eine neue Vervollständigung04:11
• 41Wege zur Musik, Mozart Requiem in D Minor, K. 626, Teil 1 "Tod und Verklärung": Die tragische Tonart04:04
• 42Wege zur Musik, Mozart Requiem in D Minor, K. 626, Teil 1 "Tod und Verklärung": Der graue Bote03:32
• 43Wege zur Musik, Mozart Requiem in D Minor, K. 626, Teil 1 "Tod und Verklärung": Der wahre Endzweck unseres Lebens05:39
• 44Wege zur Musik, Mozart Requiem in D Minor, K. 626, Teil 1 "Tod und Verklärung": Dokument des Verschwindens06:46
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Wege zur Musik, Mozart Requiem in D Minor, K. 626, Teil 2 "Lückenfüller":
• 45Wege zur Musik, Mozart Requiem in D Minor, K. 626, Teil 2 "Lückenfüller": Anonymus05:10
• 46Wege zur Musik, Mozart Requiem in D Minor, K. 626, Teil 2 "Lückenfüller": Das Fragment06:40
• 47Wege zur Musik, Mozart Requiem in D Minor, K. 626, Teil 2 "Lückenfüller": Klangfarben als Symbol04:53
• 48Wege zur Musik, Mozart Requiem in D Minor, K. 626, Teil 2 "Lückenfüller": Remplissage03:59
• 49Wege zur Musik, Mozart Requiem in D Minor, K. 626, Teil 2 "Lückenfüller": Herausforderung Fuge07:00
• 50Wege zur Musik, Mozart Requiem in D Minor, K. 626, Teil 2 "Lückenfüller": Berufliche Perspektiven02:58
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Wege zur Musik, Mozart Requiem in D Minor, K. 626, Teil 3 "Mythos und Manuskript":
• 51Wege zur Musik, Mozart Requiem in D Minor, K. 626, Teil 3 "Mythos und Manuskript": Süßmayr03:35
• 52Wege zur Musik, Mozart Requiem in D Minor, K. 626, Teil 3 "Mythos und Manuskript": Eybler02:51
• 53Wege zur Musik, Mozart Requiem in D Minor, K. 626, Teil 3 "Mythos und Manuskript": Urschrift und Erstdruck04:31
• 54Wege zur Musik, Mozart Requiem in D Minor, K. 626, Teil 3 "Mythos und Manuskript": Der Requiemstreit03:01
• 55Wege zur Musik, Mozart Requiem in D Minor, K. 626, Teil 3 "Mythos und Manuskript": Libera me04:13
• Total Runtime02:33:48

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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