Stefano Montanari, Orchestra del Teatro Regio di Torino - Mozart: Requiem in D Minor, K. 626 Missa pro defunctis (2022)

Mozart accepted an anonymous commission to write a Requiem in July 1791. He worked on it during a series of hectic composition, premieres and urgent deadlines that would eventually prove fatal. Mozart’s already failing health, coupled with dark delusions of him being poisoned, convinced the composer that he was writing the Requiem for his own funeral. At his death, very little had been completed in full and much was left in draft form, so it was largely Mozart’s pupil Franz Xaver Süssmayr who completed the work, composing the missing Sanctus and Agnus Dei. This sublime work embraces Bach-like elements coupled with astonishing harmonic modernity in what has become one of Mozart’s best-loved works.
Tracklist
01. Requiem in D Minor, K. 626 "Missa pro defunctis": I. Introitus. Requiem aeternam
02. Requiem in D Minor, K. 626 "Missa pro defunctis": II. Kyrie
03. Requiem in D Minor, K. 626 "Missa pro defunctis": IIIa. Dies irae
04. Requiem in D Minor, K. 626 "Missa pro defunctis": IIIb. Tuba mirum
05. Requiem in D Minor, K. 626 "Missa pro defunctis": IIIc. Rex tremendae
06. Requiem in D Minor, K. 626 "Missa pro defunctis": IIId. Recordare
07. Requiem in D Minor, K. 626 "Missa pro defunctis": IIIe. Confutatis
08. Requiem in D Minor, K. 626 "Missa pro defunctis": IIIf. Lacrymosa
09. Requiem in D Minor, K. 626 "Missa pro defunctis": IVa. Domine Jesu
10. Requiem in D Minor, K. 626 "Missa pro defunctis": IVb. Hostias
11. Requiem in D Minor, K. 626 "Missa pro defunctis": V. Sanctus
12. Requiem in D Minor, K. 626 "Missa pro defunctis": VI. Benedictus
13. Requiem in D Minor, K. 626 "Missa pro defunctis": VII. Agnus Dei
14. Requiem in D Minor, K. 626 "Missa pro defunctis": VIII. Lux aeterna