RCO Live - Release sheet RCO 14002
Mozart: Requiem Mariss Jansons, chief conductor Genia Kühmeier, soprano Bernarda Fink, contralto Mark Padmore, tenor Gerald Finley, bass Netherlands Radio Choir Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Releasedate : 4 April 2014 Cataloguenumber : RCO 14002 Barcode: 814337019044 Hybrid Multichannel SACD, 5.0 Recorded live at Concertgebouw Amsterdam on 14-16 September 2011
Track listing: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Requiem in D minor, KV 626 (finished by F.X. Süssmayr) 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.
Introitus: Requiem Kyrie Sequentia: Dies irae – Tuba mirum – Rex tremendae – Recordare – Confutatis – Lacrimosa Offertorium: Domine Jesu – Hostias Sanctus Benedictus Agnus Dei Communio: Lux aeterna
During his last years in Vienna Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart composed only three liturgical works: the short Ave Verum Corpus and two unfinished masterworks: the Mass in C minor and the Requiem in D minor. Most of his sacred oeuvre was written at an early age in the conservative city of Salzburg. The Requiem from 1791 is stylistically far removed from that early church music and suits the concert hall better than the church. Chief conductor Mariss Jansons leads the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Dutch Radio Choir and a stellar vocal quartet, featuring Genia Kühmeier, Bernarda Fink, Mark Padmore and Gerald Finley in an intense reading of Mozart's last masterpiece. From the press: "… a first rate regale … magnificently played and sung" Erik Voermans, Het Parool