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Sinfonie avanti l'opera
Bongiovanni Jan 2007
CD
$13.99

Cassol: Requiem pour L. / Vangama

Outhere Music

$20.99 Sep 28, 2018

Mozart’s Requiem is one of the most iconic works in the history of western music. After exploring its labyrinth of secrets in several years of research, Fabrizio Cassol wanted to reframe the mournful ritual of the Requiem to express other emotions as well – such as joyfulness – transcended by music and dancing. He confided his wish to Alain Platel, who was immediately fired by the idea. The choice of musicians was key: the ensemble is made up of six singers, three likembes, accordion, guitar, bass, euphonium and percussion. The basic narrative and formal scheme of the original Requiem is retained: recognizable fragments from it are quoted in almost all the sections. Joy and intense exultation, the power of the ‘groove’ and profound incantations all meet and intermingle with polyphony from many different sources. Five African languages intertwine with the ancient Latin text, and invocations to the ancestors ring out, creating a unique journey towards the hereafter – a journey open to the reality of the world today.

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Cassol: Requiem pour L. / Vangama
Outhere Music Sep 2018
CD
$20.99

Magi: Sinfonia a piena orchestra e banda / Angeloni: Miserer
Bongiovanni Jan 1992
CD
$13.99

Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 3; Isle of the Dead / Wilson, Sinfonia of London

Chandos

SACD

$21.99 Oct 28, 2022

Rachmaninoff’s tone poem The Isle of the Dead was composed in Dresden in 1908 – 09, inspired by the 1880 painting of that name by the Swiss symbolist Arnold Böcklin. The painting depicts a ferryman rowing a coffin towards the Isle of the Dead, and Rachmaninoff, unusually setting the piece in five beats to the bar, captures the atmosphere and the motion of oars in the water in the most extraordinary detail. Dedicated to the outstanding Ukrainian-born coloratura soprano Antonina Vasilyevna Nezhdanova, the ‘Vocalise’ was first performed, by her with the composer, in January 1916. After creating a version with orchestral accompaniment, Rachmaninoff then produced the version heard here, for orchestra alone.

Following the Russian revolution and his exile to the USA, the compositional output of Rachmaninoff declined dramatically. In great demand both as a virtuoso performer and as a conductor, he toured extensively, but struggled to incorporate ‘modern music’ into his compositional style. In the mid 1930’s he acquired a holiday villa in Lucerne, and surprised the world with his ‘Paganini’ Rhapsody, quickly followed by the Third Symphony. Sinfonia of London and John Wilson demonstrate exceptional ensemble playing throughout, and their glowing string sound suits this repertoire perfectly.

REVIEW:

John Wilson and the Sinfonia of London here deliver an authoritative version of Rachmaninoff’s Third Symphony, in impressive SACD surround sound. For those who want an SACD take on the work, this will become the gold standard.

-- Classical CD Choice

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Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 3; Isle of the Dead / Wilson, Sinfonia of London
Chandos Oct 2022
SACD
$21.99

Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante, Concerto For Flute & Harp / Rampal
Sony Masterworks Mar 2010
CD
$17.99

Stravinsky: Duo Concertant, Sonata For 2 Pianos, Requiem Canticles / Frautschi, Denk, Craft

Naxos

$19.99 Apr 26, 2011

Robert Craft always conducts splendid late Stravinsky, or selects the best players to do the chamber works full justice, and so it proves here. Granted, the program is a bit of a mish-mash, but that’s only to be expected given the composer and the length of each work. In the Duo, Frautschi and Denk play with just the right crispness and clarity, and you’ll search in vain for a better version of Abraham and Isaac (not that there are all that many). In short, if you’ve been collecting this series, which Naxos hopefully will box up complete someday, then you’ll want to add this disc to your library as well.

-- David Hurwitz, ClassicsToday.com

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Stravinsky: Duo Concertant, Sonata For 2 Pianos, Requiem Canticles / Frautschi, Denk, Craft
Naxos Apr 2011
CD
$19.99

Ein Deutsches Barockrequiem / Meunier, Vox Luminus

Ricercar

$20.99 Apr 14, 2023

Johannes Brahms drew texts from various Biblical sources for his Deutsches Requiem. As we hear in his choral music, he had a passion for polyphony and was inspired by models from the great Lutheran tradition of the late Renaissance and the Baroque. Ricercar and Vox Luminis have explored this early repertoire with the same passion for many years now, although with no less admiration for Brahms's masterpiece. It is no surprise that some of the texts that Brahms chose had already been set by his illustrious predecessors; it simply remained for us to trace a path through these earlier scores, so many meditations on death, and to assemble a very different Deutsches Requiem: one animated by the emotions of the Lutheran Baroque.

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Ein Deutsches Barockrequiem / Meunier, Vox Luminus
Ricercar Apr 2023
CD
$20.99

MOZART: REQUIEM - SAY: MOZART & MEVLANA

WARNER CLASSICS

$17.49 Nov 21, 2025

World premiere recording. Mozart's magnificent setting of the Requiem Mass needs no introduction. One of his last works and a landmark of choral music, it is paired on this album with a new and complementary work by the pianist and composer Fazil Say: Mozart ve Mevlana, an homage to Mozart's Requiem, based on the texts of 13th-century mystic Mevlana Rumi. Introducing Mozart ve Mevlana, Fazil Say says: "Mevlana is a great philosopher from the Eastern world - the Orient. I'm from Turkey. I thought: 'Why not unite East and West in love and friendship through texts from the great philosopher Mevlana and quotations from the music of a composer of genius like Mozart in a fluid musical space?... I play all Mozart's works for piano and I have recorded them all. So Mozart plays a very special role in my life... Mozart's music is the music of humanity. Likewise, Mevlana's words unite people regardless of their religion or belief."

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MOZART: REQUIEM - SAY: MOZART & MEVLANA
WARNER CLASSICS Nov 2025
CD
$17.49

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Manchicourt: Requiem for an Emperor

Ramee

$20.99 Feb 14, 2025

Charles V was certainly the most powerful and charismatic of the Renaissance rulers. Exhausted and worn down by the challenges of imperial rule, he abdicated towards the end of his life and led a secluded existence in the monastery of Cuacos de Yuste in Castile under the motto 'Ecce elongavi fugiens et mansi in solitudine' ('I fled and remained in solitude'). The Utopia Ensemble seeks out the man behind the monarch and examines the duality of power and greatness as well as solitude. Pierre de Manchicourt - court composer to Charles's son and director of the famous Capilla Flamenca - could well have written his Requiem for one of the countless commemorations of Charles V. It radiates serenity and splendour and is juxtaposed here with chansons that moved the heart beneath Charles's imperial armour.

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Manchicourt: Requiem for an Emperor
Ramee Feb 2025
CD
$20.99

A History Of The Requiem, Part 3: Anton Bruckner, Maurice Durufle

Cyprés Records

$20.99 Jan 12, 2009

A history of the Requiem' takes the music-lover on a journey through the very varied history of the requiem. Presenting one work per century seemed to be just right for illustrating the evolution of this, one of the most significant musical forms in the history of music. The first part of the series, devoted to Ockeghem and Lassus, was awarded a '5' by the prestigious magazine Goldberg, and the second part, presenting the requiems of André Campra and Michael Haydn, recorded on period instruments got a 'four stars' from Le Monde de La Musique. Begun towards the end of 1848, Anton Bruckner's Requiem was completed on 11 March 1849. It was performed for the first time on 13 September 1849 at Sankt Florian. Dissatisfied with it, Bruckner reworked it in 1854 and again in 1894, then according it a 'This is not bad!?, despite his acute sense of autocriticism. Almost nothing hints at the extraordinary symphonist to come, but he makes great strides towards the choral writing of later masterpieces such as the Te Deum and the masses. Maurice Duruflé's Requiem was the response to a commission from the publisher Durand and was written by Duruflé in memory of his father. The piece poses an interesting problem: written in 1947, it is a near contemporary of works as radical as Le Soleil des eaux (1948) of Boulez or the Quatre Études de rythmes pour piano (1949) of Messiaen. In appearance, the Requiem shares hardly any of the preoccupations prevalent in France at this time. Yet, success was immediate, and was even greater subsequently in the United Kingdom and in the USA, where it has never flagged: there, the work continues to enjoy an exceptional reputation. Lying fairly clearly within the tradition of Fauré, Duruflé's Requiem resembles the older work in its overall character of calm and meditation.

Composers:
Anton BRUCKNER
Maurice DURUFLE

Performers:
LAUDANTES CONSORT
Guy JANSSENS (Conductor)
Benoît MERNIER (Organ)
Elke Janssens (Soprano)
Penelope Turner (Mezzo)
Roel Williams (Tenor)
Arnout Malfliet (Bass)

Track Listing:
Anton Bruckner Requiem
1. Requiem
2. Dies irae
3. Domine
4. Hostias
5. Quam olim
6. Sanctus
7. Benedictus
8. Agnus Dei
9. Requiem
10. Cum sanctus

Maurice Durufle Requiem
11. Introit
12. Kyrie
13. Domine jesu criste
14. Sanctus
15. Pie jesu
16. Agnus dei
17. Lux aeterna
18. Libera Me
19. In paradisum

Total timing: 72.59

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A History Of The Requiem, Part 3: Anton Bruckner, Maurice Durufle
Cyprés Records Jan 2009
CD
$20.99

Dittersdorf: Sinfonias On Ovid's Metamorphoses 4-6 / Gmür
Naxos Oct 1995
CD
$19.99

Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante, Music for French Horn

Supraphon

$41.99 Oct 19, 2018

Warning: this recording is not intended for musicological purists. But if you love spontaneous music making in the most select of company, this is definitely the right recording for you. Radek Baborák, for example, does not hesitate to arrange a discarded movement from a symphony to add as the missing movements of an unfinished horn concerto. Of course, to tell the truth, didn't Mozart himself do the exact same thing countless times? In this way, the preserved fragments are turned into two "new horn concertos." The Sinfonia concertante for four wind instruments and orchestra, K 297b is a work surrounded by many mysteries, and it fits beautifully in this context of discovery. Here, it is recorded in Baborák's arrangement for Mozart's original instrumentation. Playing the solo parts are virtuosos from Europe's best orchestras. For the 12 horn duets - the only completely extant composition on this album played in it's original instrumentation - Baborák's partner is another of today's legendary horn players, Radovan Vlatkovic. Radek Baborák and his friends are inviting you on an excursion to the world of their elder colleague Wolfgang Amadeus - with his inexhaustible supply of jokes, ideas, and colors.

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Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante, Music for French Horn
Supraphon Oct 2018
CD
$41.99

Britten: War Requiem
Naxos Jul 1996
CD
$29.99

Sinfonía No. 4 / Fandangos / Carnaval

Naxos

$9.99 ~~$19.99~~ Save 50% Nov 19, 2013

Over the last decade the music of the Puerto Rican composer Roberto Sierra has become internationally admired, and this has led to prestigious commissions and performances around the world. Fandangos was heard at the BBC Proms in London and employs a harpsichord work attributed to Antonio Soler as a departure for a richly inventive orchestral fantasy. The dramatic Sinfonia No. 4 was described by ArtsNowNashville as 'a textbook example of how this composer breathes new life into old forms. The piece is basically a classic Germanic symphony imbued with Spanish sensibilities and reinvigorated with new harmonies and rhythms.' Robert Schumann is subtly evoked in Carnaval, five character pieces that explore mythical creatures, both menacing and serene.

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Sinfonía No. 4 / Fandangos / Carnaval
Naxos Nov 2013
CD
~~$19.99~~ $9.99

Korngold: Symphony, Theme & Variations & Straussiana / Wilson, Sinfonia of London

Chandos

SACD

$21.99 Sep 06, 2019

John Wilson and his Sinfonia of London shine in an all-Korngold programme full of wit, romanticism, sensitivity, and virtuosity – an orchestral tour de force! Conductor John Wilson has earned a reputation for his interpretations of British and American repertoire in particular. He is a favourite of many of the UK’s orchestras and festivals including the BBC Proms and Aldeburgh Festival and is currently Associate Guest Conductor of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. John is also in demand across the world at the very highest level, conducting the major orchestras of Sydney, Berlin, Budapest, Amsterdam, Oslo amongst many others, and has a large and growing discography, covering a wide range of repertoire.

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REVIEW:

Wilson's performance of the symphony is one of the most athletic on record. Rhythms are springy and purposeful; the great Adagio really strives, as well as sings, and I’ve rarely heard it probe deeper. Every phrase speaks; textures are translucent and detailed (even at the dizzying speed of the Scherzo), and the string sound glows from within, with portamento very much at the service of expression. Wilson clearly sees Korngold’s Symphony (rightly) as part of the Viennese classical tradition. The result is both gripping and sincerely moving.

– Gramophone

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Korngold: Symphony, Theme & Variations & Straussiana / Wilson, Sinfonia of London
Chandos Sep 2019
SACD
$21.99

Talich Special Edition 4 - Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante - Sy
Supraphon Sep 2005
CD
$20.99

Lassus: Lamentationes Jeremiae Prophetae / Requiem
Signum Classics Jan 2006
CD
$19.99

Dvorak: Requiem / Herreweghe

PHI

$29.99 Apr 28, 2015

The Collegium Vocale Gent, the Royal Flemish Philharmonic and Philippe Herreweghe join forces once again for a monument of the sacred choral repertoire: Antonín Dvorák’s Requiem, Op. 89. This work, dating from 1890, is one of those that marked a new phase in the composer’s musical creation, in which he recognized himself ‘as much a poet as well as a musician’. In addition, this reveals the veritable nature of a composer without constraint, probably being neither a commission nor an occasional work.

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Dvorak: Requiem / Herreweghe
PHI Apr 2015
CD
$29.99

Mozart: Sinfonia concertante - Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 1
Archipel Jan 2012
CD
$10.99

Ravel: Daphnis et Chloe / Wilson, Sinfonia of London

Chandos

SACD

$21.99 Nov 03, 2023

Ravel’s early masterpiece, Daphnis et Chloé, was commissioned by Serge Diaghilev for his Ballets Russes, and was premièred in the Théâtre du Châtelet in July 1912. Described by Ravel as a ‘symphonie chorégraphique’ (choreographic symphony), the work was performed just twice in that 1912 season, and was given only three more performances the following year. Press reaction was muted, and it is now much more often performed as a concert work than as a ballet. Daphnis, a shepherd, and Dorcon, a cowherd, dance for the privilege of a kiss from Chloé. Daphnis wins the contest and Chloé’s kiss leaves him in ecstasy. Chloé is kidnapped by a band of pirates; Daphnis prostrates himself before the god Pan. The pirates are celebrating their successful raid in their camp when Pan appears and frightens them all away. Some shepherds find Chloé (with Pan’s help) and reunite her with Daphnis.

This recording uses John Wilson’s new performing edition of the work, a project which Wilson took on during the pandemic lockdown in 2020. He writes: ‘The standard performing materials for Daphnis et Chloé have long been the subject of much discussion among orchestral players, conductors, and musicologists. Aside from a mass of errors in the 1913 published full score, the orchestral parts contain many hundreds of inconsistencies, omissions, and wrong notes. It became apparent that numerous changes made by Ravel in rehearsals were transferred directly into the parts but not carried over into the full score. I have tried to rationalise such (and other) inconsistencies as best I could to arrive at what is, I hope, a useful practical performing edition in which the parts match the full score in every detail and – crucially, for a work of such complexity – everything is carefully laid out and easy to read.’

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Ravel: Daphnis et Chloe / Wilson, Sinfonia of London
Chandos Nov 2023
SACD
$21.99

Bach: Concerto for 2 Violins - Mozart: Sinfonia concertante

ICA Classics

DVD

$26.99 Feb 22, 2011

David Oistrakh and Igor Oistrakh perform in this 1961 recording of the Bach. Sir Colin Davis conducts the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra with Yehudi Menuhin and Kirill Kondrashin in these works by Bach, Mozart, and Brahms recorded in 1961 and 1963.

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Bach: Concerto for 2 Violins - Mozart: Sinfonia concertante
ICA Classics Feb 2011
DVD
$26.99

Ravel, Berkeley & Pounds: Orchestral Works / Wilson, Sinfonia of London

Chandos

SACD

$10.99 ~~$21.99~~ Save 50% Feb 16, 2024

The three composers whose works appear on this album are interconnected: Ravel was a mentor to Lennox Berkeley, and Berkeley to Pounds. Le Tombeau de Couperin marks Ravel’s movement towards neoclassicism, its forms and style a re-invention of ones from the French baroque.

Originally written for solo piano, the movements of the suite were dedicated to friends whom Ravel had lost in the First World War. In 1919, he orchestrated four of the six movements (the version performed here). Berkeley met Ravel a number of times in the 1920s, working as an interpreter and tour-guide whilst Ravel was in London. Ravel advised him to study with Nadia Boulanger, which he did, between 1926 and 1932.

Commissioned by Sir Arthur Bliss for the BBC Symphony Orchestra in 1942, the Divertimento initially received a mixed reception, but has since found many supporters (including Pounds). The critic Peter Dickinson felt it showed an ‘instinctive and unimpassioned creativeness associated with the French aesthetic, but by no means restricted to it’.

Adam Pounds studied privately with Berkeley in London during the late 1970s, and in his own music has perpetuated the firm commitment of the two earlier composers to clarity and accessibility in everything they wrote. His Third Symphony was written in 2021 and is a response to the national lockdowns in 2020 and 2021 prompted by the Covid-19 pandemic. Pounds states that the piece captures the ‘sadness, humor, determination, and defiance’ which everyone faced at this time – not least musicians. Scored for relatively modest orchestral forces, the work is dedicated to Sinfonia of London and John Wilson who here give the work its world première recording.

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Ravel, Berkeley & Pounds: Orchestral Works / Wilson, Sinfonia of London
Chandos Feb 2024
SACD
~~$21.99~~ $10.99

REQUIEM / TE DEUM
Nosag Records Aug 2004
CD
$18.99

Verdi: Messa Da Requiem / Theodossiou, Ganassi, Aronica, Zanellato, Temirkanov [blu-ray]

C Major Entertainment

Blu-Ray

$18.99 ~~$37.99~~ Save 50% Sep 24, 2013

Note: This Blu-ray Disc is playable only on Blu-ray Disc players, and not compatible with standard DVD players.

Also available on standard DVD

Recorded live from the Teatro Regio di Parma, 8 October 2011

Bonus:
- Verdi’s Backyard – A documentary by Sergej Grguric

Picture format: 1080i High Definition
Sound format: PCM 2.0 / DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
Region code: 0 (worldwide)
Subtitles: Italian, English, German, French, Spanish, Chinese, Korean, Japanese (concert) / English, Italian (documentary)
Running time: 95 mins (concert) + 52 mins (documentary)
No. of Discs: 1 (BD 50)

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Verdi: Messa Da Requiem / Theodossiou, Ganassi, Aronica, Zanellato, Temirkanov [blu-ray]
C Major Entertainment Sep 2013
Blu-Ray
~~$37.99~~ $18.99

Faure: Requiem; Gounod: Messe de Clovis

Alpha

$20.99 Aug 23, 2024

While Faure's Requiem is a monument of French sacred music, Gounod's Messe de Clovis is much less well known. It was composed from 1891 onwards as a tribute to Clovis who, like Joan of Arc, had become an iconic figure after the defeat of France in the Franco-Prussian war of 1870. The two works share a reflective and intimate character that gives the impression of a return to the purity of Gregorian chant, although this does not detract from the jubilant character of Faure's Requiem: "this warm, luxuriant sound leads to an elevation of the spirit", says Herve Niquet. The work is recorded here in it's 1893 version, in an orchestration that uses neither violins nor woodwind; a later version with full orchestra was published in July 1900. O salutaris by Louis Aubert (1877-1968) for soprano, violin, harp, organ and choir and L'Adagio for violin and organ by Andre Caplet (1878-1925) complete this programme, a co-production with the Palazzetto Bru Zane and performed with fervour by the Concert Spirituel.

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Faure: Requiem; Gounod: Messe de Clovis
Alpha Aug 2024
CD
$20.99