Mozart, W.A.: Requiem in D Minor

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Label
Naxos
Release Date
April 15, 1989
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      MOZART
    • PERFORMER
      Vlad, Peter, Rusó, Jozef, Mikuláš, Zdenek, Kundlak, Jaroslava, Košler, Magdaléna, Horská, Hajóssyová
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      April 15, 1989
    • UPC
      730099523523
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      8550235
    • LABEL
      Naxos
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Chamber Music & Recitals
    Works ⌄

    1. Introit: Requiem aeternam

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Slovak Philharmonic Chorus, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra

      Performer: Vladimír Rusó

      Conductor: Zdeněk Košler

    2. Kyrie eleison

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Slovak Philharmonic Chorus, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra

      Performer: Vladimír Rusó

      Conductor: Zdeněk Košler

    3. Sequence No. 1: Dies irae

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Slovak Philharmonic Chorus, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra

      Performer: Vladimír Rusó

      Conductor: Zdeněk Košler

    4. Sequence No. 2: Tuba mirum

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra

      Performer: Magdaléna Hajóssyová, Jaroslava Horská, Jozef Kundlák, Peter Mikuláš

      Conductor: Zdeněk Košler

    5. Sequence No. 3: Rex tremendae majestatis

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Slovak Philharmonic Chorus, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra

      Conductor: Zdeněk Košler

    6. Sequence No. 4: Recordare, Jesu pie

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra

      Performer: Magdaléna Hajóssyová, Jaroslava Horská, Jozef Kundlák, Peter Mikuláš

      Conductor: Zdeněk Košler

    7. Sequence No. 5: Confutatis maledictis

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Slovak Philharmonic Chorus, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra

      Conductor: Zdeněk Košler

    8. Sequence No. 6: Lacrimosa dies illa

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Slovak Philharmonic Chorus, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra

      Performer: Vladimír Rusó

      Conductor: Zdeněk Košler

    9. Offertory No. 1: Domine Jesu Christe

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Slovak Philharmonic Chorus, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra

      Conductor: Zdeněk Košler

    10. Offertory No. 2: Hostias et preces

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Slovak Philharmonic Chorus, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra

      Conductor: Zdeněk Košler

    11. Sanctus

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Slovak Philharmonic Chorus, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra

      Conductor: Zdeněk Košler

    12. Benedictus

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra

      Performer: Magdaléna Hajóssyová, Jaroslava Horská, Jozef Kundlák, Peter Mikuláš

      Conductor: Zdeněk Košler

    13. Agnus Dei

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Slovak Philharmonic Chorus, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra

      Conductor: Zdeněk Košler

    14. Communion: Lux aeterna

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Slovak Philharmonic Chorus, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra

      Performer: Magdaléna Hajóssyová

      Conductor: Zdeněk Košler


Constanze Mozart was later to claim that her husband had a premonition that the Requiem was an omen of his own coming death, a suggestion to which one may attach little credence, however attractive the story may appear to the romantic imagination. Mozart seemed, in the summer of 1791, very much more cheerful than he had been, since his fortunes had taken an obvious turn for the better. In November, however, he was taken ill and within a fortnight he was dead, his death ascribed by his doctor to military fever, but the subject of much subsequent speculation. On 4th December he felt well enough to sing with his friends parts of the Requiem, which was still incomplete. Benedikt Schack, Tamino in Die Zauberflöte, sang the soprano part in falsetto, Mozart sang alto, the violinist Hofer, husband of Constanze's sister Josefa, Queen of the Night, sang tenor and Franz Gerl, whose wife played Papagena, while he took the part of Sarastro, sang bass. It is said that Mozart burst into tears and could go no further when it came to the Lacrimosa, of which, incidentally, he had written on I y the first eight bars. This was in the afternoon. In the evening his condition worsened and he died at five minutes to one on the morning of 5th December, to be buried a day or so later in an unmarked grave. Mozart had completed the composition and scoring of the Introit and Kyrie, used by Süssmayer for the final Communion, Lux aeterna. The great Sequence, the Dies Irae, was sketched fairly fully up to the verse Lacrimosa, dies illa, a point at which Eybler too gave up his tentative work on the score. Süssmayer continued the Lacrimosa for a further 22 bars, completing it. Mozart had written the voice parts and bass of the Offertory, as he had for much of the Dies Irae, and this Süssmayer completed. Sanctus, Benedictus and Agnus Dei are the work of Süssmayer. The Czech conductor Zdenek Kosler studied under Karel Ancerl at the Prague Academy of Arts, and distinguished himself early in his career at the Besançon Conductors' Competition and in the Dimitri Mitropoulos Competition in New York. The first prize in the second of these enabled him to work as assistant-conductor with Leonard Bernstein for one year.