Mozart: Requiem / Christophers, Watts, Pancella, Kennedy, Owens, Naim

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Label
Coro
Release Date
August 30, 2011
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      MOZART, W.A.
    • PERFORMER
      Requiem
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      August 30, 2011
    • UPC
      828021609329
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      COR16093
    • LABEL
      Coro
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Vocal
    Works ⌄

    1. Ave verum corpus, K. 618

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Handel and Haydn Society Chorus, Handel and Haydn Society Orchestra

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    2. Introit: Requiem aeternam (Chorus)

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Handel and Haydn Society Chorus, Handel and Haydn Society Orchestra

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    3. Kyrie eleison (Chorus)

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Handel and Haydn Society Chorus, Handel and Haydn Society Orchestra

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    4. Sequence No. 1: Dies Irae (Chorus)

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Handel and Haydn Society Chorus, Handel and Haydn Society Orchestra

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    5. Sequence No. 2: Tuba miram (Soprano, Mezzo-soprano, Tenor, Bass-baritone)

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Handel and Haydn Society Orchestra

      Performer: Elizabeth Watts, Phyllis Pancella, Andrew Kennedy, Eric Owens

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    6. Sequence No. 3: Rex tremendae majestatis (Chorus)

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Handel and Haydn Society Chorus, Handel and Haydn Society Orchestra

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    7. Sequence No. 4: Recordare, Jesu pie (Soprano, Mezzo-soprano, Tenor, Bass-baritone)

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Handel and Haydn Society Orchestra

      Performer: Elizabeth Watts, Phyllis Pancella, Andrew Kennedy, Eric Owens

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    8. Sequence No. 5: Confutatis maledictis (Chorus)

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Handel and Haydn Society Chorus, Handel and Haydn Society Orchestra

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    9. Sequence No. 6: Lacrimosa dies illa (Chorus)

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Handel and Haydn Society Chorus, Handel and Haydn Society Orchestra

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    10. Offertory No. 1: Domine Jesu Christe (Chorus)

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Handel and Haydn Society Chorus, Handel and Haydn Society Orchestra

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    11. Offertory No. 2: Hostias et preces (Chorus)

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Handel and Haydn Society Chorus, Handel and Haydn Society Orchestra

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    12. Sanctus (Chorus)

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Handel and Haydn Society Chorus, Handel and Haydn Society Orchestra

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    13. Benedictus (Soprano, Mezzo-soprano, Tenor, Baritone)

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Handel and Haydn Society Orchestra

      Performer: Elizabeth Watts, Phyllis Pancella, Andrew Kennedy, Eric Owens

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    14. Agnus Dei (Chorus)

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Handel and Haydn Society Chorus, Handel and Haydn Society Orchestra

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    15. Communion: Lux aeterna (Soprano, Chorus)

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Handel and Haydn Society Chorus, Handel and Haydn Society Orchestra

      Performer: Elizabeth Watts

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    16. Commentary from Robert Nairn

      Composer: na Not Applicable

      Performer: Robert Nairn

    17. Per questa bella mano, K. 612

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Handel and Haydn Society Orchestra

      Performer: Eric Owens, Robert Nairn

      Conductor: Harry Christophers


Following the success of the Mozart Mass in C minor last year, CORO is delighted to announce the release of its second recording with Harry Christophers and the Handel and Haydn Society. Celebrated soloists Elizabeth Watts, Phyllis Pancella, Andrew Kennedy and Eric Owens joined Harry and the Society to record Mozart's Requiem live at Boston's Symphony Hall earlier this year. Mozart's final moments are reflected through this masterpiece of drama, intensity and depth. The mysterious circumstances surrounding the Requiem's commission (delivered by a 'messenger in black' who refused to reveal the identity of the person who had sent him), and the fact it was left incomplete by a dying Mozart, have ensured a continued fascination with the work. Completed by Mozart's colleague Süssmayr in 1792, the Requiem is one of Mozart's most popular and enduring works and one of the most enigmatic pieces of music ever composed. The CD will also feature Mozart's Ave verum corpus and the first recording on period instruments of his concert aria Per questa bella mano for bass voice and solo double bass obligato--a piece famous for its fiendishly difficult double bass part, performed superbly on this recording by Robert Nairn. Harry Christophers was appointed Artistic Director of Boston's internationally acclaimed Handel and Haydn Society in 2008. Founded in 1815, the Society is the oldest continuously performing arts organization in the U.S. and has given the American premieres of major works by Handel, Bach and Haydn, has won a Grammy Award, and will celebrate its Bicentennial in 2015. "Onstage, Christophers has what it takes to inspire the Society's fine musicians." The Wall Street Journal "...a commanding and compelling reading of an important if often overlooked monument in Mozart's musical development." Gramophone on COR16084: Mass in C minor