Requiem

Album by Giuseppe Verdi & Katia Ricciarelli & Shirley Verrett & Plácido Domingo & Nicolaï Ghiaurov & Coro del Teatro alla Scala di Milano & Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala di Milano & Romano Gandolfi & Claudio Abbado

The Requiem is a large-scale choral work by Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi, completed and first performed in 1874. It sets the Roman Catholic Requiem text in an expansive, operatic choral-orchestral style characterised by dramatic contrasts, prominent solo voices, powerful choral passages and vivid orchestral writing, reflecting Verdi's late-career adaptation of his theatrical language to a sacred genre and its significance within 19th-century choral repertoire.
First released: 1986

Tracklist

  1. 1.
    Requiem: I. Requiem - Requiem aeternam dona eis
    9:17
  2. 2.
    Requiem: III. Ofertorio - Domine Jesu Christe
    11:26
  3. 3.
    Requiem: IV. Sanctus - Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus
    2:41
  4. 4.
    Requiem: II. Dies Irae - Dies irae, dies illa
    2:25
  5. 5.
    Requiem: V. Agnus Dei - Agnus Dei qui tollis
    5:27
  6. 6.
    Requiem: II. Dies Irae - Tuba mirum spargens sonum
    3:27
  7. 7.
    Requiem: VI. Lux aeterna - Lux aeterna luceat eis
    6:57
  8. 8.
    Requiem: II. Dies Irae - Liber scriptus proferetur
    5:19
  9. 9.
    Requiem: VII. Libera me - Libera me, Domine
    13:48
  10. 10.
    Requiem: II. Dies Irae - Quid sum miser tunc dicturus-
    4:08
  11. 11.
    Requiem: II. Dies Irae - Rex tremendae majestatis
    3:43
  12. 12.
    Requiem: II. Dies Irae - Recordare, Jesu pie
    4:25
  13. 13.
    Requiem: II. Dies Irae - Ingemisco tamquam reus
    3:53
  14. 14.
    Requiem: II. Dies Irae - Confutatis maledictis
    5:43
  15. 15.
    Requiem: II. Dies Irae - Lacrymosa dies illa
    6:30

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