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Mozart, W.A.: Requiem in D Minor
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Mozart, W.A.: Requiem in D Minor

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Composer
MOZART
Artist
Vlad, Peter, Rusó, Jozef, Mikuláš, Zdenek, Kundlak, Jaroslava, Košler, Magdaléna, Horská, Hajóssyová
Format
CD
Label
Naxos
Released
Apr 15, 1989
Catalog #
8550235
UPC
730099523523

About

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.

Tracklist 14 tracks

  1. 1 Introit: Requiem aeternam 05:02
    Track
    1
    Title
    Introit: Requiem aeternam
    Duration
    05:02
    Composer
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Performer
    Vladimír Rusó
    Ensemble
    Slovak Philharmonic Chorus, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra
    Conductor
    Zdeněk Košler
  2. 2 Kyrie eleison 02:44
    Track
    2
    Title
    Kyrie eleison
    Duration
    02:44
    Composer
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Performer
    Vladimír Rusó
    Ensemble
    Slovak Philharmonic Chorus, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra
    Conductor
    Zdeněk Košler
  3. 3 Sequence No. 1: Dies irae 01:46
    Track
    3
    Title
    Sequence No. 1: Dies irae
    Duration
    01:46
    Composer
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Performer
    Vladimír Rusó
    Ensemble
    Slovak Philharmonic Chorus, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra
    Conductor
    Zdeněk Košler
  4. 4 Sequence No. 2: Tuba mirum 04:17
    Track
    4
    Title
    Sequence No. 2: Tuba mirum
    Duration
    04:17
    Composer
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Performer
    Magdaléna Hajóssyová, Jaroslava Horská, Jozef Kundlák, Peter Mikuláš
    Ensemble
    Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra
    Conductor
    Zdeněk Košler
  5. 5 Sequence No. 3: Rex tremendae majestatis 02:20
    Track
    5
    Title
    Sequence No. 3: Rex tremendae majestatis
    Duration
    02:20
    Composer
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Ensemble
    Slovak Philharmonic Chorus, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra
    Conductor
    Zdeněk Košler
  6. 6 Sequence No. 4: Recordare, Jesu pie 06:27
    Track
    6
    Title
    Sequence No. 4: Recordare, Jesu pie
    Duration
    06:27
    Composer
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Performer
    Magdaléna Hajóssyová, Jaroslava Horská, Jozef Kundlák, Peter Mikuláš
    Ensemble
    Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra
    Conductor
    Zdeněk Košler
  7. 7 Sequence No. 5: Confutatis maledictis 03:07
    Track
    7
    Title
    Sequence No. 5: Confutatis maledictis
    Duration
    03:07
    Composer
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Ensemble
    Slovak Philharmonic Chorus, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra
    Conductor
    Zdeněk Košler
  8. 8 Sequence No. 6: Lacrimosa dies illa 03:20
    Track
    8
    Title
    Sequence No. 6: Lacrimosa dies illa
    Duration
    03:20
    Composer
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Performer
    Vladimír Rusó
    Ensemble
    Slovak Philharmonic Chorus, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra
    Conductor
    Zdeněk Košler
  9. 9 Offertory No. 1: Domine Jesu Christe 03:34
    Track
    9
    Title
    Offertory No. 1: Domine Jesu Christe
    Duration
    03:34
    Composer
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Ensemble
    Slovak Philharmonic Chorus, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra
    Conductor
    Zdeněk Košler
  10. 10 Offertory No. 2: Hostias et preces 04:39
    Track
    10
    Title
    Offertory No. 2: Hostias et preces
    Duration
    04:39
    Composer
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Ensemble
    Slovak Philharmonic Chorus, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra
    Conductor
    Zdeněk Košler
  11. 11 Sanctus 01:38
    Track
    11
    Title
    Sanctus
    Duration
    01:38
    Composer
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Ensemble
    Slovak Philharmonic Chorus, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra
    Conductor
    Zdeněk Košler
  12. 12 Benedictus 05:36
    Track
    12
    Title
    Benedictus
    Duration
    05:36
    Composer
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Performer
    Magdaléna Hajóssyová, Jaroslava Horská, Jozef Kundlák, Peter Mikuláš
    Ensemble
    Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra
    Conductor
    Zdeněk Košler
  13. 13 Agnus Dei 03:46
    Track
    13
    Title
    Agnus Dei
    Duration
    03:46
    Composer
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Ensemble
    Slovak Philharmonic Chorus, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra
    Conductor
    Zdeněk Košler
  14. 14 Communion: Lux aeterna 05:48
    Track
    14
    Title
    Communion: Lux aeterna
    Duration
    05:48
    Composer
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Performer
    Magdaléna Hajóssyová
    Ensemble
    Slovak Philharmonic Chorus, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra
    Conductor
    Zdeněk Košler