Mozart: Requiem in D Minor, K. 626 - Neukomm: Libera me, Domine (Live) Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin & Howard Arman

• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791): Requiem in D Minor, K. 626 "Missa pro defunctis":
• 1Mozart: Requiem in D Minor, K. 626 "Missa pro defunctis": I. Introitus. Requiem aeternam (Live)04:39
• 2Mozart: Requiem in D Minor, K. 626 "Missa pro defunctis": II. Kyrie eleison (Live)02:21
• 3Mozart: Requiem in D Minor, K. 626 "Missa pro defunctis": IIIa. Dies irae (Live)01:51
• 4Mozart: Requiem in D Minor, K. 626 "Missa pro defunctis": IIIb. Tuba mirum (Live)02:53
• 5Mozart: Requiem in D Minor, K. 626 "Missa pro defunctis": IIIc. Rex tremendae (Live)01:45
• 6Mozart: Requiem in D Minor, K. 626 "Missa pro defunctis": IIId. Recordare (Live)04:34
• 7Mozart: Requiem in D Minor, K. 626 "Missa pro defunctis": IIIe. Confutatis (Live)02:17
• 8Mozart: Requiem in D Minor, K. 626 "Missa pro defunctis": IIIf. Lacrimosa (Live)03:28
• 9Mozart: Requiem in D Minor, K. 626 "Missa pro defunctis": IVa. Offertorium. Domine Jesu Christe (Live)03:28
• 10Mozart: Requiem in D Minor, K. 626 "Missa pro defunctis": IVb. Offertorium. Hostias (Live)02:05
• 11Mozart: Requiem in D Minor, K. 626 "Missa pro defunctis": IVc. Offertorium. Quam olim Abrahae (Live)01:43
• 12Mozart: Requiem in D Minor, K. 626 "Missa pro defunctis": V. Sanctus (Live)01:21
• 13Mozart: Requiem in D Minor, K. 626 "Missa pro defunctis": VI. Benedictus (Live)04:40
• 14Mozart: Requiem in D Minor, K. 626 "Missa pro defunctis": VII. Agnus Dei (Live)02:45
• 15Mozart: Requiem in D Minor, K. 626 "Missa pro defunctis": VIII. Communio. Lux aeterna (Live)05:08
• Sigismund von Neukomm (1788 - 1858): Libera me, Domine (After Mozart's K. 626):
• 16Neukomm: Libera me, Domine (After Mozart's K. 626): I. Libera me, Domine [Live]01:33
• 17Neukomm: Libera me, Domine (After Mozart's K. 626): II. Tremens factus sum ego [Live]00:55
• 18Neukomm: Libera me, Domine (After Mozart's K. 626): III. Quando coeli movendi sunt [Live]00:38
• 19Neukomm: Libera me, Domine (After Mozart's K. 626): IV. Dies illa [Live]00:55
• 20Neukomm: Libera me, Domine (After Mozart's K. 626): V. Requiem aeternam [Live]01:40
• 21Neukomm: Libera me, Domine (After Mozart's K. 626): VI. Libera me, Domine [Live]01:36
• Total Runtime52:15

Info for Mozart: Requiem in D Minor, K. 626 - Neukomm: Libera me, Domine (Live)

"The version submitted by Howard Arman for the Bavarian Radio Chorus is based on surviving Mozart sources as well as on Süßmayr's additions. Mozart's Requiem is followed by Neukomm's Respond Libera me, Domine – and for musical, liturgical and chronological reasons, the programme begins with Mozart's Vesperae solennes de Confessore KV 339 (1780), composed of psalms from the Old Testament as well as the Magnificat from the Gospel of St Luke and composed for the liturgical festival of a holy confessor. Howard Arman has prepended Mozart’s movements for the festival vespers with antiphons taken from the vespers De Confessore Pontifici (for a confessor who was a bishop) of the Gregorian Liber usualis, and has also composed his own organ intonations to enhance the antiphons. Although it remained incomplete as Mozart’s last work, the Requiem in D minor (1791) ranks as one of the most important settings of the Latin Mass for the Dead ever written. Immediately after Mozart's all too premature death, his pupil Franz Xaver Süßmayr elaborated a completed version that is still appreciated and regularly performed to this day because of its close proximity to the original – and this despite a number of new adaptations created over the years that sometimes add cautious improvements to the Süßmayr version or instead follow their own lights entirely."

Christina Landshamer, soprano
Sophie Harmsen, mezzo-soprano
Julian Prégardien, tenor
Tareq Nazmi, bass
Nikolaus Pfannkuch, cantor of the antiphons
Raphael Alpermann, organ
Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin
Howard Arman, direction

Howard Arman
Versatility is one of the principal artistic concerns of London-born conductor, chorus master and composer Howard Arman, who since the autumn of 2016 has been the artistic director of the Bavarian Radio Chorus. As a result he has made a name for himself in every area of classical music, no matter what the period, genre or form, from Baroque concertos performed according to the tenets of historically informed performance practice to choral symphonies, operas, jazz programmes and singalong concerts that he himself presents and that are designed to appeal to the widest possible audiences. For many years Howard Arman has been professor of orchestral conducting at the Lucerne School of Music.

Howard Arman studied at Trinity College of Music in London before working with a number of leading English ensembles and quickly extending his field of activity to mainland Europe. In Germany he has worked with the choirs of NDR, SWR and RIAS Berlin. From 1983 to 2000 he conducted the Salzburg Bach Choir and from 1998 to 2013 was artistic director of the MDR Choir in Leipzig. He first appeared at the Salzburg Festival in 1995. In addition to his international commitments as a choral and orchestral conductor he has also conducted acclaimed productions at opera houses in Germany, Austria, Italy and Switzerland.

He received the Handel Music Prize for reshaping the Handel Festival Orchestra on the occasion of its production of Orlando in 1996. From 2011 to July 2016 he was music director of the Lucerne Theatre. Among the opera productions that he conducted during that time were Handel’s Hercules, Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro, Rossini’s La Cenerentola, Bizet’s Carmen and Richard Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos. In addition he conducted Metamorphosen, a work of dance theatre featuring his own compositions, and the world premiere of Johannes Maria Staud’s Die Antilope.

Beginning in 2002 Howard Arman was a frequent guest conductor of the Bavarian Radio Chorus. As the chorus’s principal conductor, he has produced several Christmas Classics and the ‘cOHRwürmer’ sing-along concerts and expanded its programme to include Handel’s rarely heard Occasional Oratorio as well as Verdi’s Four Sacred Pieces, Rossini’s Stabat mater, Bach’s Christmas Oratorio and the Monteverdi Vespers.

Arman’s lengthy discography contains recordings of Rachmaninoff’s All-Night Vigil and Graun’s Der Tod Jesu. Among his CD recordings with the Bavarian Radio Chorus are Handel’s Occasional Oratorio, Mozart’s C-minor Mass, Mendelssohn’s psalms, the Bach motets and the Christmas programmes (More) Christmas Surprises and Joy to the World.

Booklet for Mozart: Requiem in D Minor, K. 626 - Neukomm: Libera me, Domine (Live)