Requiem

Album by Hector Berlioz & Toronto Mendelssohn Choir & Elora Festival Orchestra & Noel Edison

The Requiem (Grande Messe des morts) is a large-scale Requiem mass by French composer Hector Berlioz, completed in 1837. Scored for very large forces including a massive chorus, multiple brass choirs and orchestra, it features dramatic dynamic contrasts, expansive orchestration and the integration of liturgical form with Romantic symphonic techniques, and occupies a prominent place in Berlioz's middle-period output and in nineteenth-century French sacred music.

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Disc 1

  1. 1.
    Requiem: I. Requiem et Kyrie
    12:27
  2. 2.
    Requiem: II. Dies irae
    12:27
  3. 3.
    Requiem: III. Quid sum miser
    3:00
  4. 4.
    Requiem: IV. Rex tremendae
    6:10
  5. 5.
    Requiem: V. Quaerens me
    4:51
  6. 6.
    Requiem: VI. Lacrymosa
    9:44

Disc 2

  1. 2.
    Requiem: VII. Offertorium
    8:33
  2. 3.
    Requiem: VIII. Hostias
    3:52
  3. 4.
    Requiem: IX. Sanctus
    12:18
  4. 5.
    Requiem: X. Agnus Dei
    12:45

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