Messa da requiem

Album by Giuseppe Verdi & Akademischer Chor Zürich

Messa da Requiem is a Requiem mass by Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi, completed and first performed in 1874. The work is a large-scale choral and orchestral setting that blends operatic drama with liturgical form, using vivid contrasts between soloists, chorus and orchestra and representing Verdi's return to sacred music in which he applied his theatrical techniques to a religious context.

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Disc 1

  1. 1.
    Requiem: Requiem
    8:39
  2. 2.
    Requiem: Dies irae
    2:24
  3. 3.
    Requiem: Tuba mirum
    3:05
  4. 4.
    Requiem: Liber scriptus
    5:21
  5. 5.
    Requiem: Quid sum miser
    3:24
  6. 6.
    Requiem: Rex tremendae
    3:28
  7. 7.
    Requiem: Recordare
    3:54
  8. 8.
    Requiem: Ingemisco
    3:36
  9. 9.
    Requiem: Confutatis
    5:19
  10. 10.
    Requiem: Lacrymosa
    5:35

Disc 2

  1. 2.
    Requiem: Offertorio
    9:42
  2. 3.
    Requiem: Sanctus
    2:45
  3. 4.
    Requiem: Agnus dei
    5:14
  4. 5.
    Requiem: Lux aeterna
    6:53
  5. 6.
    Requiem: Libera me
    12:59

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