Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Performer: Golda Schultz, Katrin Wundsam, Martin Mitterrutzner, Nahuel di Pierro, Coro del Teatro di Regio di Torino
Orchestra: Orchestra del Teatro Regio di Torino
Conductor: Stefano Montanari
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Dynamic
Catalogue: CDS7932
Release: 2022
Size: 827 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Requiem in D minor, K626
01. I. Introitus. Requiem aeternam
02. II. Kyrie
03. IIIa. Dies irae
04. IIIb. Tuba mirum
05. IIIc. Rex tremendae
06. IIId. Recordare
07. IIIe. Confutatis
08. IIIf. Lacrymosa
09. IVa. Domine Jesu
10. IVb. Hostias
11. V. Sanctus
12. VI. Benedictus
13. VII. Agnus Dei
14. VIII. Lux aeterna
Mozart accepted an anonymous commission to write a Requiem in July 1791. He worked on it during a series of hectic composition, premieres and urgent deadlines that would eventually prove fatal. Mozart’s already failing health, coupled with dark delusions of him being poisoned, convinced the composer that he was writing the Requiem for his own funeral. At his death, very little had been completed in full and much was left in draft form, so it was largely Mozart’s pupil Franz Xaver Süssmayr who completed the work, composing the missing Sanctus and Agnus Dei. This sublime work embraces Bach-like elements coupled with astonishing harmonic modernity in what has become one of Mozart’s best-loved works.