Mozart - Requiem in D minor, KV626 | Philippe Herreweghe Orchestre des Champs-Elysees

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791)

Mass Requiem in D minor, KV626

01. Requiem aeternam
02. Kyrie
03. Dies irae
04. Tuba mirum
05. Rex tremendae
06. Recordare
07. Confutatis
08. Lacrimosa
09. Domine Jesu
10. Hoastias
11. Sanctus
12. Benedictus
13. Agnus Dei
14. Lux aeterna

Performer:
Sibylla Rubens, soprano
Annette Markert, alto
Ian Bostridge, tenor
Hanno Müller-Brachmann, bass

Philippe Herreweghe
Orchestre des Champs-Elysees
La Chapelle & Collegium Vocale Royale

December 1791, the final Requiem.

Tired by his many voyages around Europe ever since he had been rejected in Vienna, Mozart could not find the strength to honour his promise to compose a Requiem in record time for the person who had commissioned it… He was in fact to be struck down by illness during its composition and it was his pupil Süssmayr who finished the work according to his instructions. This version remains the most convincing, for the presence and grandeur of Mozart are present everywhere - in the baroque imagination and the classical style, in the universal unrest and the sheer terror of a man alone in the face of Death.

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Artwork: The Last Supper by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1745-1747 #ClassicalMusic