Neukomm: Requiem à la mémoire de Louis XVI

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Alpha
Release Date
January 13, 2017
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      NEUKOMM, SIGISMUND
    • PERFORMER
      La Grande Ecurie Et La Chambre Du Roy, Malgoire, Choeur De Chambre De Namur
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      January 13, 2017
    • UPC
      3760014199660
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      ALPHA966
    • LABEL
      Alpha
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Chamber Music & Recitals
    Works ⌄

    1. Marche funèbre and Miserere

      Composer: Sigismund Ritter von Neukomm

      Ensemble: La Grande Écurie et la Chambre du Roy, Chœur de Chambre de Namur

      Performer: Clémence Tilquin, Yasmina Favre, Robert Getchell, Alain Buet

      Conductor: Jean-Claude Malgoire

    2. Introit

      Composer: Sigismund Ritter von Neukomm

      Ensemble: La Grande Écurie et la Chambre du Roy, Chœur de Chambre de Namur

      Performer: Clémence Tilquin, Yasmina Favre, Robert Getchell, Alain Buet

      Conductor: Jean-Claude Malgoire

    3. Sequence (Dies irae)

      Composer: Sigismund Ritter von Neukomm

      Ensemble: La Grande Écurie et la Chambre du Roy, Chœur de Chambre de Namur

      Performer: Clémence Tilquin, Yasmina Favre, Robert Getchell, Alain Buet

      Conductor: Jean-Claude Malgoire

    4. Offertorium

      Composer: Sigismund Ritter von Neukomm

      Ensemble: La Grande Écurie et la Chambre du Roy, Chœur de Chambre de Namur

      Performer: Clémence Tilquin, Yasmina Favre, Robert Getchell, Alain Buet

      Conductor: Jean-Claude Malgoire

    5. Sanctus

      Composer: Sigismund Ritter von Neukomm

      Ensemble: La Grande Écurie et la Chambre du Roy, Chœur de Chambre de Namur

      Performer: Clémence Tilquin, Yasmina Favre, Robert Getchell, Alain Buet

      Conductor: Jean-Claude Malgoire

    6. Benedictus

      Composer: Sigismund Ritter von Neukomm

      Ensemble: La Grande Écurie et la Chambre du Roy, Chœur de Chambre de Namur

      Performer: Clémence Tilquin, Yasmina Favre, Robert Getchell, Alain Buet

      Conductor: Jean-Claude Malgoire

    7. Agnus Dei

      Composer: Sigismund Ritter von Neukomm

      Ensemble: La Grande Écurie et la Chambre du Roy, Chœur de Chambre de Namur

      Performer: Clémence Tilquin, Yasmina Favre, Robert Getchell, Alain Buet

      Conductor: Jean-Claude Malgoire

    8. Libera me

      Composer: Sigismund Ritter von Neukomm

      Ensemble: La Grande Écurie et la Chambre du Roy, Chœur de Chambre de Namur

      Performer: Clémence Tilquin, Yasmina Favre, Robert Getchell, Alain Buet

      Conductor: Jean-Claude Malgoire


In spite of the immense success he enjoyed in his lifetime, Sigismund Neukomm (born in Salzburg in 1778, died in Paris in 1858 at the age of eighty) is practically forgotten nowadays. Yet he left a catalogue of nearly two thousand works, including fifty masses and a number of oratorios and motets. Neukomm spent twenty years in the service of Prince Talleyrand, who commissioned him to write a requiem mass in memory of Louis XVI, guillotined in Paris on 21 January 1793. This was the second mass of the fifty he was eventually to compose, several of which were dedicated to monarchs. The Requiem was given at St Stephen’s Cathedral in Vienna on 21 January 1815 by more than three hundred singers divided into two choirs. Neukomm conducted one of them, while the other was directed by his friend Salieri. As part of their joint series of recordings, the Château de Versailles and Alpha continue their rediscovery of repertory that has marked the history of France and of music. Here Jean-Claude Malgoire conducts this unpublished Requiem. This is the first appearance in the Alpha catalogue of this pioneering figure from the golden age of the exploration of Baroque performing practice.