

Requiem K 626. Completion Süssmayr Dutron, 2016
1791: a busy year for Mozart who, when he received a commission for a Requiem, was already working on Die Zauberflöte and had a deadline to deliver La clemenza di Tito. Everyone knows what happened next: the commission postponed, exhaustion and death, a work left unfinished and which, after several composers were approached, was finally completed by Süssmayr. This version gradually became established as the closest to Mozart’s intentions, but is not free of faulty part-writing and orchestration. In 2016 a young French composer, Pierre-Henri Dutron, persuaded René Jacobs to perform his own revision of the Requiem completed by Süssmayr. This new version was created with great success in a series of five concerts around Europe in November 2016. We now present its first studio recording, released exclusively on harmonia mundi.



Artists
- Conductor
- Soprano
- Marie-Claude ChappuisMezzo-soprano
- Maximilian SchmittTenor
- Johannes WeisserBass
Composers
Contents
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART [1756-1791]
· I. Introitus
Requiem æternam. Adagio (4'27)
· Kyrie. Allegro (2'32)
· II. Sequentia
Dies Iræ. Allegro assai (1'59)
· Tuba mirum. Andante (3'11)
· Rex tremendæ [Maestoso] (1'48)
· Recordare [Allegretto] (4'41)
· Confutatis. Andante (2'16)
· Lacrimosa [Adagio] (3'26)
· III. Offertorium
Domine Jesu Christe - Quam olim Abrahæ [Allegretto] (3'09)
· Hostias [Larghetto] - Quam olim Abrahæ. Da capo (3'25)
· IV. Ordinario
Sanctus [Andante maestoso]
Osanna [Allegro] (1'39)
· Benedictus [Andante moderato]
Osanna [Allegro] (4'43)
· Agnus Dei [Andante] (2'46)
· V. Communio
Lux æterna. Adagio (2'59)
· Cum sanctis tuis. Allegro (2'54)