W.A. Mozart

Requiem in D minor

Works featured on the CD

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Requiem in D minor,  KV 626

Sigismund Ritter von Neukomm
Liberame, Domine

With an introduction by Markus Vanhoefer

For nearly two decades, the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin has been a welcome - and above all: well‑heard-partner of the Bavarian Radio Chorus. After presenting several highly acclaimed concerts and recordings together featuring the music of Handel and Bach, as well as Mozart’s Mass in C minor, the ensemble now turns to another key work by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: the Requiem in D minor, K. 626, which - like the aforementioned C‑minor Mass - remained unfinished.

Howard Arman, who conducted this concert in Munich’s Herkulessaal, not only re‑examined the musical text handed down by Mozart and first completed by his student Franz Xaver Süßmayr; he also expanded the program to include the later‑composed responsory “Libera me” by Sigismund Ritter von Neukomm. This section is missing in Mozart’s Requiem, and Neukomm - a student of Michael Haydn who later also worked for Joseph Haydn - created a music‑historical monument with this “Mozart addendum.”

Live recording, Munich, Herkulessaal der Residenz, 22–25 January 2020

Released on
BR Klassik, 2020