Mozart - Requiem in D minor, KV626 | Philippe Herreweghe Orchestre des Champs-Elysees

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791) Mass Requiem in D minor, KV626 01. Requiem aeternam 02. Kyrie 03. Dies irae 04. Tuba mirum 05. Rex tremendae 06. Recordare 07. Confutatis 08. Lacrimosa 09. Domine Jesu 10. Hoastias 11. Sanctus 12. Benedictus 13. Agnus Dei 14. Lux aeterna Performer: Sibylla Rubens, soprano Annette Markert, alto Ian Bostridge, tenor Hanno Müller-Brachmann, bass Philippe Herreweghe Orchestre des Champs-Elysees La Chapelle & Collegium Vocale Royale December 1791, the final Requiem. Tired by his many voyages around Europe ever since he had been rejected in Vienna, Mozart could not find the strength to honour his promise to compose a Requiem in record time for the person who had commissioned it… He was in fact to be struck down by illness during its composition and it was his pupil Süssmayr who finished the work according to his instructions. This version remains the most convincing
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