Messa da Requiem

Album by Giuseppe Verdi & Chicago Symphony Chorus & Margaret Hillis & Chicago Symphony Orchestra & Daniel Barenboim

Messa da Requiem is a Requiem mass by Giuseppe Verdi, composed in 1874. The score blends operatic vocal writing with large-scale choral and orchestral forces, alternating dramatic solo passages, full-chorus outbursts and reflective liturgical sections, and it occupies a prominent place in Verdi's oeuvre as a choral work synthesising his operatic dramatic style with liturgical form.

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Disc 1

  1. 1.
    Requiem: Requiem
    9:35
  2. 2.
    Requiem: Dies irae
    2:13
  3. 3.
    Requiem: Tuba mirum
    1:51
  4. 4.
    Requiem: Mors stupebit
    1:17
  5. 5.
    Requiem: Liber scriptus
    4:50
  6. 6.
    Requiem: Quid sum miser
    3:50
  7. 7.
    Requiem: Rex tremendae
    3:39
  8. 8.
    Requiem: Recordare
    3:57
  9. 9.
    Requiem: Ingemisco
    3:36
  10. 10.
    Requiem: Confutatis
    5:19
  11. 11.
    Requiem: Lacrymosa
    6:06

Disc 2

  1. 2.
    Requiem: Offertorio
    10:08
  2. 3.
    Requiem: Sanctus
    2:24
  3. 4.
    Requiem: Agnus Dei
    5:23
  4. 5.
    Requiem: Lux aeterna
    6:21
  5. 6.
    Requiem: Libera me
    13:19

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