Requiem KV 626 (completed by Howard Arman)
With an introduction to the Requiem and recordings of the Vesperae KV 339 and Sigismund von Neukomm's Libera me, Domine
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Composer
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
| 1756-1791As the son of the deputy Kapellmeister to the Salzburg Prince-Archbishop, Mozart was constantly surrounded by church music in his youth. On his travels Mozart became familiar with Italian church music, and later in Vienna he studied the works of Bach and Handel. After moving to Vienna he was faced with the new challenges of composing opera and piano concertos, and significantly the “C Minor Mass” KV 427, the greatest sacred work of the first Vienna years, remained unfinished. The last period of his life again shows a change of direction to church music: Mozart successfully applied to succeed the terminally ill Leopold Hoffmann as Kapellmeister at St Stephen's Cathedral, but he was unable to take up the position as he died before Hoffmann. A gem such as the “Ave verum” KV 618 and the incomplete Requiem KV 626 give us an idea of what Mozart might have achieved as a composer of sacred music if he had taken up this important position. Personal details
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Choir
Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks
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Ensemble
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin
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Conductor
Howard Arman
| 1954Versatility is a musical characteristic which defines the work of the London-born conductor and composer Howard Arman. He has distinguished himself in all aspects of classical music, from historically-informed performances of baroque music, to opera, symphony and jazz as well as large-scale orchestral “singalong” concerts, and his work as a writer and narrator of broadcasts about music. Choral music is of particular importance. From 1998 to 2013 he was Artistic Director of the MDR (Central German Radio) Choir, which appointed him Honorary Conductor in 2019. From 2016 to 2022 he was Artistic Director of the Bavarian Radio Choir, with whom he similarly produced a large number of CD, video and television productions. Howard Arman has appeared as a guest conductor throughout Europa as well as in Asia and America.
His own compositions include choral, orchestral and stage works, beside numerous arrangements for choir and orchestra, and a series of editions of music from the 17th to the 19th century. He has held professorships both at the Mozarteum, and at the Hochschule Lucerne in Switzerland.
At Carus Howard Arman has presented us with a completed version of Mozart’s Requiem.
Personal details
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Soloist - soprano
Christina Landshamer
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Soloist - mezzo-soprano
Sophie Harmsen
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Soloist - tenor
Julian Prégardien
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Soloist - bass
Tareq Nazmi