Recordings

Mozart: Requiem from New College Choir, Oxford

Total Playing time: 48'46''
Recorded in St Michael's Church, Summertown, Oxford, July 2010
Released June 2011
Novum: NCR 1383

What makes this recording special? The use of soloists drawn from the chorus, as in Mozart’s day – including young male singers for the soprano and alto solos – combined with the use of a period band. These are not idle historical gestures. The contemporary virtues of this approach are consistency in the sound-world between chorus and solo ensemble, and homogeneity of style between orchestra and chorus.

The musical text employed is Süssmayr’s completion of Mozart’s unfinished score – what Christoph Wolff has called ‘the only document that represents the genuine musical truth of the unfinished work’.

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1	Requiem in D Minor, K. 626*: Introit: Requiem aeternam (Chorus)	4:27
2	Requiem in D Minor, K. 626*: Kyrie eleison (Chorus)	2:37
3	Requiem in D Minor, K. 626*: Sequence No. 1: Dies Irae (Chorus)	2:07
4	Requiem in D Minor, K. 626*: Sequence No. 2: Tuba miram (Soprano, Mezzo-soprano, Tenor, Baritone)	3:07
5	Requiem in D Minor, K. 626*: Sequence No. 3: Rex tremendae majestatis (Chorus)	2:05
6	Requiem in D Minor, K. 626*: Sequence No. 4: Recordare, Jesu pie (Soprano, Mezzo-soprano, Tenor, Baritone)	5:22
7	Requiem in D Minor, K. 626*: Sequence No. 5: Confutatis maledictis (Chorus)	2:51
8	Requiem in D Minor, K. 626*: Sequence No. 6: Lacrimosa dies illa (Chorus)	2:42
9	Requiem in D Minor, K. 626*: Offertory No. 1: Domine Jesu Christe (Chorus)	3:35
10	Requiem in D Minor, K. 626*: Offertory No. 2: Hostias et preces (Chorus)	3:47
11	Requiem in D Minor, K. 626*: Sanctus (Chorus)	1:34
12	Requiem in D Minor, K. 626*: Benedictus (Soprano, Mezzo-soprano, Tenor, Baritone)	5:56
13	Requiem in D Minor, K. 626*: Agnus Dei (Chorus)	2:54
14	Requiem in D Minor, K. 626*: Communion: Lux aeterna (Soprano, Chorus)	5:34