Kuijken String Quartet
Requiem KV 626 - Version for string quartet by Peter Lichtenthal (1780-1853)
- Type CD
- Label Challenge Classics
- UPC 0608917285420
- Catalog number CC 72854
- Release date 26 March 2021
About the album
Transcriptions for string quartet by the composer or someone else was common practice in Mozarts time. In that light this string-version of Mozart's Requiem is nothing special. What makes it special, is the circumstance of the original Requiem itself. It is known that Mozart left the majority of the work incompleted, and that on request of Mozart's widow, his pupil Süssmayer did the finishing job. Where one's work ends and the other's starts, no-one knows. This 'skeleton-version' of the Requiem, however, fully preserves the eloquence of Mozart's music and therefore perhaps proves that the Requiem contains more of the masters own composing than we can objectively establish. But incomplete as the Requiem is, Mozart's universal genius radiates through the notes in any version. And if anyone can bring the radiation to the surface in this version, no one better than the Kuijken Kwartet.
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11Requiem KV 626 - Version for string quartet by Peter Lichtenthal (1780-1853) Introitus: Requiem
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12Requiem KV 626 - Version for string quartet by Peter Lichtenthal (1780-1853) Kyrie
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13Requiem KV 626 - Version for string quartet by Peter Lichtenthal (1780-1853) Dies Irae
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14Requiem KV 626 - Version for string quartet by Peter Lichtenthal (1780-1853) Tuba mirum
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15Requiem KV 626 - Version for string quartet by Peter Lichtenthal (1780-1853) Rex tremendae
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16Requiem KV 626 - Version for string quartet by Peter Lichtenthal (1780-1853) Recordare
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17Requiem KV 626 - Version for string quartet by Peter Lichtenthal (1780-1853) Confutatis
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18Requiem KV 626 - Version for string quartet by Peter Lichtenthal (1780-1853) Lacrimosa
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19Requiem KV 626 - Version for string quartet by Peter Lichtenthal (1780-1853) Domine Jesu Christe
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110Requiem KV 626 - Version for string quartet by Peter Lichtenthal (1780-1853) Hostias
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111Requiem KV 626 - Version for string quartet by Peter Lichtenthal (1780-1853) Sanctus
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112Requiem KV 626 - Version for string quartet by Peter Lichtenthal (1780-1853) Benedictus
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113Requiem KV 626 - Version for string quartet by Peter Lichtenthal (1780-1853) Agnus Dei
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114Requiem KV 626 - Version for string quartet by Peter Lichtenthal (1780-1853) Lux aeterna
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Sigiswald Kuijken interviewed in Meesterwerk
13-11-2009
On Saturday, November 14th 2009, Sigiswald Kuijken will be a guest in 'Meesterwerk' on Klara Radio in Vlaanderen, Belgium. Topic of the programme will be Mozart's Requiem. A new Requiem is available now and it is of the well-known writer Jeroen Brouwers together with drawings of Roger Raveel. In this 'new Rquiem' Brouwers formulates a contemporary answer to Mozarts Requiem. A new Requiem is also a production of I Solisti ...