Mozart: Requiem

Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Arman, Howard, Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks

900926

Live-Recording: Munich, Herkulessaal der Residenz, 22.–25.01.2020

With an introduction to the work by Markus Vanhoefer (CD 2)

Soloists: Christina Landshamer, soprano | Sophie Harmsen, mezzo soprano | Julian Prégardien, tenor | Tareq Nazmi, bass

The version submitted by Howard Arman for the Bavarian Radio Chorus is based on surviving Mozart sources as well as on 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.

CD x 2

BR Klassik

9/30/20

4035719009262