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Mozart: Requiem, K. 626

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Download links and information about Mozart: Requiem, K. 626 by John Eliot Gardiner, English Baroque Soloists, Barbara Bonney, Anne Sofie Von Otter, Hans Peter Blochwitz. This album was released in 1987 and it belongs to Classical, Choral genres. It contains 14 tracks with total duration of 46:23 minutes.

Artist: John Eliot Gardiner, English Baroque Soloists, Barbara Bonney, Anne Sofie Von Otter, Hans Peter Blochwitz
Release date: 1987
Genre: Classical, Choral
Tracks: 14
Duration: 46:23
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Tracks

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No. Title Length
1. Requiem in D Minor, K. 626: I. Introitus: Requiem (featuring The Monteverdi Choir) 4:29
2. Requiem in D Minor, K. 626: II. Kyrie (featuring The Monteverdi Choir) 2:34
3. Requiem in D Minor, K. 626: III.i. Sequentia: Dies Irae (featuring The Monteverdi Choir) 1:44
4. Requiem in D Minor, K. 626: III.ii. Sequentia: Tuba Mirum (featuring Susan Addison, Sir Willard White) 3:08
5. Requiem in D Minor, K. 626: III.iii Sequentia: Rex Tremendae (featuring The Monteverdi Choir) 1:59
6. Requiem in D Minor, K. 626: III.iv. Sequentia: Recordare (featuring Sir Willard White) 4:30
7. Requiem in D Minor, K. 626: III.v. Sequentia: Confutatis (featuring The Monteverdi Choir) 2:25
8. Requiem in D Minor, K. 626: III.vi. Sequentia: Lacrimosa (featuring The Monteverdi Choir) 2:51
9. Requiem in D Minor, K. 626: IV.i. Offertorium: Domine Jesu (featuring The Monteverdi Choir, Sir Willard White) 3:23
10. Requiem in D Minor, K. 626: IV.ii. Offertorium: Hostias (featuring The Monteverdi Choir) 3:59
11. Requiem in D Minor, K. 626: V. Sanctus (featuring The Monteverdi Choir) 1:23
12. Requiem in D Minor, K. 626: VI. Benedictus (featuring Sir Willard White) 5:09
13. Requiem in D Minor, K. 626: VII. Agnus Dei (featuring The Monteverdi Choir) 3:11
14. Requiem in D Minor, K. 626: VIII.Communio: Lux Aeterna (featuring The Monteverdi Choir) 5:38

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Mozart's unfinished Requiem is surrounded by legend. Commissioned in secrecy and conceived while the composer was fatally ill, it has been credited with conveying his premonitions of his own death. More far-fetched but equally alluring is the scene portrayed in the film Amadeus, in which Mozart dictates the terrifying "Confutatis" to Antonio Salieri, convicted by the rumor mill as Mozart's murderer. The angelic voices of Anne-Sofie Von Otter and Barbara Bonney, supported by the period instruments of the English Baroque Soloists, convey the fear of death and hope of an afterlife in this final statement from the world's greatest composer.