Requiem: Süßmayr-Version, KV 626, 1791

Description

Alto Practice CD

Priority Direct Import Title*

The composition of the Requiem is surrounded by anecdotes and legends. Mozart’s student Franz Xaver Süßmayr completed the unfinished work after Mozart’s death. But in musical terms, the work offers far more than mere anecdotes: Mozart’s choral writing, at the height of his art, presents singers with harmonically challenging passages and thrilling fugues. If you master this, there’s great enjoyment to be had from singing the work, despite its subject matter …

The Carus Choir Coach offers choir singers the unique opportunity to study and learn their own, individual choral parts within the context of the sound of the entire choir and orchestra. For every vocal range a separate CD containing each choir part is available. The Carus Choir Coach is based on recorded interpretations by renowned artists who have performed the work from carefully prepared Carus Urtext editions. Each choir part is presented in three different versions:

Performers: Vasiljka Jezovsek (soprano), Claudia Schubert (alto), Marcus Ullmann (tenore), Michael Volle (basso) – Kammerchor Stuttgart, Barockorchester Stuttgart – Frieder Bernius

Süßmayr's completion divides the Requiem into eight sections:

1. Introitus
1. Requiem aeternam (Solo Soprano, SATB Chorus)
2. Kyrie (Chorus)
3. Sequentia (text based on sections of the Dies irae)
1. Dies irae (Chorus)
2. Tuba mirum (Soli SATB)
3. Rex tremendae (SATB Chorus)
4. Recordare (Soli SATB)
5. Confutatis (Chorus)
6. Lacrimosa (Chorus)
4. Offertorium
1. Domine Jesu (Soli SATB, Chorus)
2. Hostias (Chorus)
5. Sanctus (Chorus)
6. Benedictus (Soli SATB, Chorus)
7. Agnus Dei (Chorus)
8. Communio
1. Lux aeterna (Solo Soprano, Chorus)

Scoring:

SATB Soli • SATB Chorus
2 Basset Horns in F • 2 Bassoons • 2 Trumpets • 3 Trombones • Timpani • Violins • Viola • Basso Continuo (Cello, Double Bass, and Organ)

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