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Label/No. & Format Harmonia Mundi HMM902291 CD
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Release: November 3, 2017


* Mozart: Requiem, K. 626
Süssmayr-Fassung, revidiert von Pierre-Henry Dutron, 2016
René Jacobs/ Freiburger Barockorchester

Sophie Karthäuser (soprano), Marie-Claude Chappuis (mezzo-soprano),
Maximilian Schmitt (tenor), Johannes Weisser (baritone)
RIAS Kammerchor

1791: a busy year for Mozart who, when he received a commission for a Requiem, was already working on Die Zauberflöte
and had a deadline to deliver La clemenza di Tito. Everyone knows what happened next: the commission postponed,
exhaustion and death, a work left unfinished and which, after several composers were approached, was finally completed by
Süssmayr. This version gradually became established as the closest to Mozart¡¯s intentions, but is not free of faulty part-writing
and orchestration. In 2016 a young French composer, Pierre-Henri Dutron, persuaded René Jacobs to perform his own
revision of the Requiem completed by Süssmayr. This new version was created with great success in a series of five concerts
around Europe in November 2016. We now present its first studio recording, released exclusively on harmonia mundi.

No. Composer Works Performance Information
1 Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus Requiem in D minor, K 626 René Jacobs/ Freiburger Barockorchester
(Sophie Karthäuser, Marie-Claude Chappuis, Maximilian Schmitt, Johannes Weisser, RIAS Kammerchor)
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