W.A. Mozart REQUIEM - Kyrie KV 341
The story of how Mozart came to compose the Requiem has often been told. The mysterious man in grey who commissioned it from him, for a generous fee but under the condition of secrecy, turned out to be the servant of a Count Walsegg who intended to claim the work has his own at a memorial service for his wife. But Mozart only lived to complete the vocal parts and the figured bass up to the end of the "Hostias", the complete orchestration of the ""Introitus," the first violin part of the "Dies irae" and "Rex tremendae," and otherwise only sparse indications here and there, such as the trombone solo which opens "Tuba mirum."
John Eliot Gardiner's 1986 recording of Mozart's unfinished Requiem, with the Monteverdi Choir and the English Baroque Soloists, is a model of clarity and grace. The soloists - Barbara Bonney, Anne Sofie von Otter, Hans Peter Blochwitz, and Willard White - are supple, expressive, but never overpowering. This disc also features the lively and colorful Kyrie (k. 341). -Joshua Cody
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART (1756-1791)
Requiem, KV 626
I. Introitus
1) Requiem (4:30)
2) II. Kyrie (2:34)
III. Sequentia
3) Dies irae (1:45)
4) Tuba mirum* (3:09)
5) Rex tremendae (1:59)
6) Recordare (4:28)
7) Confutatis (2:26)
8) Lacrimosa (2:50)
IV. Offertorium
9) Domine Jesu (3:22)
10) Hostias (3:56)
11) V. Sanctus (1:23)
12) VI. Benedictus (5:08)
13) VII. Agnus Dei (3:11)
14) VIII. Communio (5:38)
15) Kyrie in D minor, KV 341 (7:35)
BARBARA BONNEY, soprano
ANNE SOFIE VON OTTER, contralto
HANS PETER BLOCHWITZ, tenor
WILLARD WHITE, bass
MONTEVERDI CHOIR
*Susan Addison, trombone solo
ENGLISH BAROQUE SOLOISTS
Conducted by
JOHN ELIOT GARDINER
1986 PHILIPS Classics
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