Mozart: Requiem in D Minor, K. 626 - Neukomm: Libera me, Domine (Live)

The version submitted by Howard Arman for the Bavarian Radio Chorus is based on surviving Mozart sources as well as on Sußmayr's additions; in several places, however, it reaches new conclusions that are implemented with due caution and humble respect for Mozart's magnificent original. Mozart's Requiem is followed by Neukomm's Respond Libera me, Domine. Although it remained incomplete as Mozart’s last work, the Requiem in D minor (1791) ranks as one of the most important settings of the Latin Mass for the Dead ever written. Immediately after Mozart's all too premature death, his pupil Franz Xaver Sußmayr elaborated a completed version that is still appreciated and regularly performed to this day because of its close proximity to the original – and this despite a number of new adaptations created over the years that sometimes add cautious improvements to the Sußmayr version or instead follow their own lights entirely. – Mozart’s Requiem KV 626 from 1791 is followed by Sigismund von Neukomm's Libera me, Domine, the Respond from the Liturgy of Exequies composed by Neukomm in 1821 as a liturgical completion of Mozart's Requiem for a performance in Rio de Janeiro (the Salzburg composer Neukomm had emigrated to Brazil in 1816). • First recording of Mozart's Requiem in the newly-created version by Howard Arman - together with Sigismund von Neukomm’s Libera me, Domine • Live recording of a concert performed in January 2020 at the Herkulessaal in the Munich Residenz • Outstanding singers for the four solo parts • Howard Arman conducts the Bavarian Radio Chorus and the Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin