Mozart: Requiem. Pygmalion / Raphaël Pichon

Mozart: Requiem. Pygmalion / Raphaël Pichon

HMM902729 (Harmonia Mundi, CD)

FIRST RELEASE (4 October 2024)
Tracks: 22
Booklet pages: 64
℗ 2024 Harmonia Mundi Musique SAS
© 2024 Harmonia Mundi Musique SAS
Main country of recording: Belgium
Country of manufacture: Poland
Reviewer: Gerald Fenech
Review of Mozart: Requiem. Pygmalion / Raphaël Pichon published on 23 August 2024

Ying Fang, soprano (tracks 2, 4, 8, 11, 14, 18 and 21)
Beth Taylor, alto (tracks 2, 8, 11, 14, 18 and 19)
Laurence Kilsby, tenor (tracks 2, 8, 11, 14 and 18)
Alex Rosen, bass (tracks 2, 6, 8, 11, 14 and 18)
Chadi Lazreq, treble (tracks 1, 10 and 22)
Pygmalion
Raphaël Pichon, conductor

anonymous:

1 Plainchant: Antienne - In paradisum

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:

2 Ach, zu kurz ist unsers Lebenslauf K 228 (515b) - Canon a 4

3 Miserere mei - originally Kyrie, K 90

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, completed by Franz Xaver Süssmayr:

Requiem in D minor, K 626
4 I Introitus
5 II Kyrie

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:

6 Ne pulvis et cinis, K 122

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, completed by Franz Xaver Süssmayr:

Requiem in D minor, K 626
III Sequentia I
7 Dies iræ
8 Tuba mirum
9 Rex tremendæ

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, orchestrated by Vincent Manac'h:

10 Solfeggio in F, K 393/2

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, completed by Franz Xaver Süssmayr:

Requiem in D minor, K 626
III Sequentia II
11 Recordare
12 Confutatis
13 Lacrimosa - and Amen (appendix)
IV Offertorium I
14 Domine Jesu Christe

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:

15 Quis te comprehendat, K Anh 110

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, completed by Franz Xaver Süssmayr:

Requiem in D minor, K 626
IV Offertorium II
16 Hostias
17 V Sanctus
18 VI Benedictus

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, orchestrated by Vincent Manac'h:

19 O Gottes Lamm, K 343/1

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, completed by Franz Xaver Süssmayr:

Requiem in D minor, K 626
20 VII Agnus Dei
21 VIII Communio

anonymous:

22 Plainchant: Antienne - In paradisum

The sublime reflection of a human being faced with his own finitude and what comes afterwards, Mozart's Requiem reaches beyond the realm of music to attain universal resonance. Raphaël Pichon's interpretation of this testamentary work, nurtured by a seminal experience with stage director Romeo Castellucci and punctuated by earlier sacred pieces of Mozart, is overwhelmingly moving.

Recorded in September 2023 at the Grand Manège de Namur, Belgium.