Mozart / Salieri - Requiem

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At the Royal Chapel of Versailles, Hervé Niquet and his Concert Spirituel perform the sublime Requiem of two contemporaries (and rivals?), Mozart and Salieri!More details

MOZART · SALIERI REQUIEM

HERVÉ NIQUET
Le Concert Spirituel

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART (1756-1791)
REQUIEM KV 626 EN RE MINEUR

ANTONIO SALIERI (1750-1825)
REQUIEM EN DO MINEUR

Valentina Nafornita · Ambroisine Bré · Robin Tritschler · Andreas Wol

Le Concert Spirituel
Hervé Niquet, direction

Two illustrious composers at odds with their Requiem? When, in 1791, a 36-year-old Mozart composed the one that would remain unfinished due to his death, he did so in response to a commission from the eccentric Count von Walsegg. Mozart would never hear his music. At the time, Salieri was at the height of his glory at the age of 41, famed for his operas from Paris and Milan to Rome and of course Vienna, where he was Court Composer and Director of the Italian Opera. Having put an end to his lyrical career, in 1804 he composed his Requiem, which was strictly intended for his own funeral, where it was indeed played – in 1825. Hervé Niquet brings us these two monuments of Viennese liturgy with panache. Could Mozart have been imagining his own funeral when he composed his sublime Requiem? What could be a more fantastic musical celebration of a genius?

Recorded from 20th to 23rd November 2021 at the Chapelle Royale de Versailles.

Booklet French/English/German - Duration: 68'53

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