Mozart: Requiem (with Intro & Commentary) / Arman, Academy of Ancient Music Berlin

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BR Klassik
Release Date
October 2, 2020
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      MOZART, W.A.
    • PERFORMER
      Chor Des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Akademie Fur Alte Musik Berlin, Arman
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      October 02, 2020
    • UPC
      4035719009262
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      BRK900926
    • LABEL
      BR Klassik
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      2
    • GENRE
      Choral - Sacred
    Works ⌄

    1. Ecce sacerdos magnus (Cantor)

      Composer: Howard Arman

      Performer: Nikolaus Pfannkuch, Raphael Alpermann

    2. Dixit Dominus

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin

      Performer: Christina Landshamer, Sophie Harmsen, Julian Prégardien, Tareq Nazmi

      Conductor: Howard Arman

    3. Ecce sacerdos magnus (Chorus)

      Composer: Howard Arman

      Ensemble: Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks

      Conductor: Howard Arman

    4. Non est inventus (Cantor)

      Composer: Howard Arman

      Performer: Nikolaus Pfannkuch, Raphael Alpermann

    5. Confitebor

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin

      Performer: Christina Landshamer, Sophie Harmsen, Julian Prégardien, Tareq Nazmi

      Conductor: Howard Arman

    6. Non est inventus (Chorus)

      Composer: Howard Arman

      Ensemble: Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks

      Conductor: Howard Arman

    7. Ideo (Cantor)

      Composer: Howard Arman

      Performer: Nikolaus Pfannkuch, Raphael Alpermann

    8. Beatus vir

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin

      Performer: Christina Landshamer, Sophie Harmsen, Julian Prégardien, Tareq Nazmi

      Conductor: Howard Arman

    9. Ideo jurejurando (Chorus)

      Composer: Howard Arman

      Ensemble: Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks

      Conductor: Howard Arman

    10. Sacerdotes Dei (Cantor)

      Composer: Howard Arman

      Performer: Nikolaus Pfannkuch, Raphael Alpermann

    11. Laudate Pueri

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin

      Performer: Christina Landshamer, Sophie Harmsen, Julian Prégardien, Tareq Nazmi

      Conductor: Howard Arman

    12. Sacerdotes Dei (Chorus)

      Composer: Howard Arman

      Ensemble: Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks

      Conductor: Howard Arman

    13. Serve bone (Cantor)

      Composer: Howard Arman

      Performer: Nikolaus Pfannkuch, Raphael Alpermann

    14. Laudate Dominum

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin

      Performer: Christina Landshamer

      Conductor: Howard Arman

    15. Serve bone et fidelis (Chorus)

      Composer: Howard Arman

      Ensemble: Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks

      Conductor: Howard Arman

    16. Dum esset summus pontifex (Cantor)

      Composer: Howard Arman

      Performer: Nikolaus Pfannkuch, Raphael Alpermann

    17. Magnificat

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin

      Performer: Christina Landshamer, Sophie Harmsen, Julian Prégardien, Tareq Nazmi

      Conductor: Howard Arman

    18. Dum esset summus pontifex (Chorus)

      Composer: Howard Arman

      Ensemble: Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks

      Conductor: Howard Arman

    19. Introit: Requiem aeternam (Soprano, Chorus)

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin

      Performer: Christina Landshamer

      Conductor: Howard Arman

    20. Kyrie eleison (Chorus)

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin

      Conductor: Howard Arman

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

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin

      Conductor: Howard Arman

    22. Sequence No. 2: Tuba mirum (Soprano, Mezzo-soprano, Tenor, Bass)

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin

      Performer: Christina Landshamer, Sophie Harmsen, Julian Prégardien, Tareq Nazmi

      Conductor: Howard Arman

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

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin

      Conductor: Howard Arman

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

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin

      Performer: Christina Landshamer, Sophie Harmsen, Julian Prégardien, Tareq Nazmi

      Conductor: Howard Arman

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

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin

      Conductor: Howard Arman

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

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin

      Conductor: Howard Arman

    27. Offertory No. 1: Domine Jesu Christe (Soprano, Mezzo-soprano, Tenor, Bass, Chorus)

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin

      Performer: Christina Landshamer, Sophie Harmsen, Julian Prégardien, Tareq Nazmi

      Conductor: Howard Arman

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

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin

      Conductor: Howard Arman

    29. Offertory No. 3: Quam olim Abrahae (Chorus)

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin

      Conductor: Howard Arman

    30. Sanctus (Chorus)

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin

      Conductor: Howard Arman

    31. Benedictus (Soprano, Mezzo-soprano, Tenor, Bass)

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin

      Performer: Christina Landshamer, Sophie Harmsen, Julian Prégardien, Tareq Nazmi

      Conductor: Howard Arman

    32. Agnus Dei (Chorus)

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin

      Conductor: Howard Arman

    33. Communion: Lux aeterna (Soprano, Chorus)

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin

      Performer: Christina Landshamer

      Conductor: Howard Arman

    34. Libera me, Domine, de morte aeterna

      Composer: Sigismund Ritter von Neukomm

      Ensemble: Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin

      Conductor: Howard Arman

    35. Tremens factus sum ego

      Composer: Sigismund Ritter von Neukomm

      Ensemble: Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin

      Conductor: Howard Arman

    36. Quando coeli movendi sunt

      Composer: Sigismund Ritter von Neukomm

      Ensemble: Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin

      Conductor: Howard Arman

    37. Dies illa

      Composer: Sigismund Ritter von Neukomm

      Ensemble: Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin

      Conductor: Howard Arman

    38. Requiem aeternam

      Composer: Sigismund Ritter von Neukomm

      Ensemble: Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin

      Conductor: Howard Arman

    39. Libera me, Domine

      Composer: Sigismund Ritter von Neukomm

      Ensemble: Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin

      Conductor: Howard Arman

    40. Teil 1: Tod und Verklärung: Eine neue Vervollständigung

      Performer: Christian Baumann, Howard Arman

    41. Teil 1: Tod und Verklärung: Die tragische Tonart

      Performer: Christian Baumann, Howard Arman, Hans Jürgen Stockerl

    42. Teil 1: Tod und Verklärung: Der graue Bote

      Performer: Christian Baumann, Hans Jürgen Stockerl

    43. Teil 1: Tod und Verklärung: Der wahre Endzweck unseres Lebens

      Performer: Christian Baumann, Hans Jürgen Stockerl, Burchard Dabinnus, Katja Schild

    44. Teil 1: Tod und Verklärung: Dokument des Verschwindens

      Performer: Christian Baumann, Howard Arman, Hans Jürgen Stockerl

    45. Teil 2: Lückenfüller: Anonymus

      Performer: Christian Baumann, Hans Jürgen Stockerl

    46. Teil 2: Lückenfüller: Das Fragment

      Performer: Christian Baumann, Howard Arman, Hans Jürgen Stockerl

    47. Teil 2: Lückenfüller: Klangfarben als Symbol

      Performer: Christian Baumann, Howard Arman, Hans Jürgen Stockerl

    48. Teil 2: Lückenfüller: Remplissage

      Performer: Christian Baumann, Howard Arman, Hans Jürgen Stockerl, Franziska Ball

    49. Teil 2: Lückenfüller: Herausforderung: Fuge

      Performer: Christian Baumann, Howard Arman, Hans Jürgen Stockerl, Franziska Ball

    50. Teil 2: Lückenfüller: Berufliche Perspektiven

      Performer: Christian Baumann, Howard Arman, Hans Jürgen Stockerl

    51. Teil 3: Mythos und Manuskript: Süßmayr

      Performer: Christian Baumann, Burchard Dabinnus, Franziska Ball

    52. Teil 3: Mythos und Manuskript: Eybler

      Performer: Christian Baumann, Burchard Dabinnus, Franziska Ball

    53. Teil 3: Mythos und Manuskript: Urschrift und Erstdruck

      Performer: Christian Baumann, Hans Jürgen Stockerl, Franziska Ball

    54. Teil 3: Mythos und Manuskript: Der Requiemstreit

      Performer: Christian Baumann, Hans Jürgen Stockerl

    55. Teil 3: Mythos und Manuskript: Libera me

      Performer: Christian Baumann, Howard Arman, Hans Jürgen Stockerl


The version submitted by Howard Arman for the Bavarian Radio Chorus is based on surviving Mozart sources as well as on his colleague Süßmayr's additions; in several places, however, it reaches new conclusions that are implemented with due caution and humble respect for Mozart's magnificent original. Mozart's Requiem is followed by Neukomm's Respond Libera me, Domine – and for musical, liturgical and chronological reasons, the programme begins with Mozart's Vesperae solennes de Confessore KV 339 (1780), composed of psalms from the Old Testament as well as the Magnificat from the Gospel of St Luke and composed for the liturgical festival of a holy confessor. Howard Arman has prepended Mozart’s movements for the festival vespers with antiphons taken from the vespers De Confessore Pontifici (for a confessor who was a bishop) of the Gregorian Liber usualis, and has also composed his own organ intonations to enhance the antiphons.

Although it remained incomplete as Mozart’s last work, the Requiem in D minor (1791) ranks as one of the most important settings of the Latin Mass for the Dead ever written. Immediately after Mozart's all too premature death, his pupil Franz Xaver Süßmayr elaborated a completed version that is still appreciated and regularly performed to this day because of its close proximity to the original – and this despite a number of new adaptations created over the years that sometimes add cautious improvements to the Süßmayr version or instead follow their own lights entirely. – Mozart’s Requiem KV 626 from 1791 is followed by Sigismund von Neukomm's Libera me, Domine, the Respond from the Liturgy of Exequies composed by Neukomm in 1821 as a liturgical completion of Mozart's Requiem for a performance in Rio de Janeiro (the Salzburg composer Neukomm had emigrated to Brazil in 1816).

REVIEW

Howard Arman conducts all pieces with assurance, in a period-informed style. Choral singing complements the accomplished period-informed playing of the thirty-four-strong Akamus on authentic instruments. The world-class Bavarian chorus shows a unanimity of cause, and supplies an inspired sacred sound, ardent, ample and immediate. Arman’s vocal soloists integrate splendidly and convincingly. Amid the emotional drama generated in the performances, the reverential nature of these sacred scores remains fundamental, and is honoured here faithfully.

–MusicWeb International