Verdi's Messa da Requiem - an "opera in ecclestiastical robes", as conductor Hans von BÃ¼low called it - recorded in October 1980 at Stiftskirche Herzogenburg with Julia Varady, Alexandrina Milcheva, Alberto Cupido, Nicola Ghiuselev, ORF Choir and ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Leif Segerstam. The Messa da Requiem is a musical setting of the Catholic funeral mass (Requiem) for four soloists, double choir and orchestra by Giuseppe Verdi. It was composed in memory of Alessandro Manzoni, an Italian poet and novelist whom Verdi admired. The first performance, at the San Marco church in Milan on 22 May 1874, marked the first anniversary of Manzoni's death. The work was at one time referred to as the Manzoni Requiem. Considered too operatic to be performed in a liturgical setting, it is usually given in concert form of around 90 minutes in length. Musicologist David Rosen calls it 'probably the most frequently performed major choral work composed since the compilation of Mozart's Requiem'.

Tracklist:

Messa Da Requiem: I. Introit - Kyrie
Messa Da Requiem: Iia. Sequence. Dies Irae
Messa Da Requiem: Iib. Sequence. Tuba Mirum - Iic. Sequence. Mors Stupebit
Messa Da Requiem: Iid. Sequence. Liber Scriptus
Messa Da Requiem: Iie. Sequence. Quid Sum Miser
Messa Da Requiem: Iif. Sequence. Rex Tremendae
Messa Da Requiem: Iig. Sequence. Recordare
Messa Da Requiem: Iih. Sequence. Ingemisco
Messa Da Requiem: III. Sequence. Confutatis
Messa Da Requiem: Iij. Sequence. Lacrimosa
Messa Da Requiem: Iiia. Offertory. Domine Jesu Christe
Messa Da Requiem: Iiib. Offertory. Hostias
Messa Da Requiem: IV. Sanctus
Messa Da Requiem: V. Agnus Dei
Messa Da Requiem: VI. Communion. Lux Aeterna
Messa Da Requiem: Viia. Libera Me - Dies Irae - Requiem Aeternam
Messa Da Requiem: Viib. Libera Me

UPC: 4011790212326
Label: Orfeo
Release Date: 8.6.21
Format: CD

Verdi / Orf Chor / Segerstam - Messa Da Requiem (2pk) (2 CD)