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Verdi: Requiem / Price, Elias, Björling, Tozzi, Wiener Philharmoniker, Fritz Reiner / Decca Legends / Decca 2x Audio CD 2000 / 289 467 119-2

UPC 028946711927

The Messa da Requiem is a musical setting of the Catholic funeral mass (Requiem) for four soloists, double choir and orchestra by Giuseppe Verdi. It was composed in memory of Alessandro Manzoni, an Italian poet and novelist whom Verdi admired. The first performance, at the San Marco church in Milan on 22 May 1874, marked the first anniversary of Manzoni's death. The work was at one time referred to as the Manzoni Requiem. Considered too operatic to be performed in a liturgical setting, it is usually given in concert form of around 90 minutes in length. Musicologist David Rosen calls it "probably the most frequently performed major choral work composed since the compilation of Mozart's Requiem".

Label:	Decca – 289 467 119-2
Series:	Decca Legends
Format:	2 x CD, Compilation
Country:	Europe
Released:	2000
Genre:	Classical
Style:	Religious, Romantic

Tracklist:

		Messa Da Requiem

1-1		I. Requiem, II. Dies Irae	12:18

1-2		Dies Irae	2:22

1-3		Tuba Mirum	3:40

1-4		Liber Scriptus	4:49

1-5		Quid Sum Miser	3:51

1-6		Rex Tremendae Majestatis	4:14

1-7		Recordare	4:02

1-8		Ingemisco	4:13

1-9		Confutatis	5:53

1-10		Lacrimosa, III. Offertorio	7:05

1-11		Domine Jesu Christe	5:13

1-12		Hostias	7:04

2-1		IV. Sanctus	2:51

2-2		V. Agnus Dei	5:35

2-3		VI. Lux Aeterna	7:13

2-4		VII. Libera Me, Libera Me	2:36

2-5		Dies Irae	2:37

2-6		Requiem Aeternam	3:42

2-7

Libera Me

7:25

Quattro Pezzi Sacri

2-8		Ave Maria	5:04

2-9		Stabat Mater	12:28

2-10		Laudi Alla Vergine Maria	5:43

2-11

Te Deum

15:39

Art Direction – Jeremy Tilston
Bass Vocals – Giorgio Tozzi
Chorus – Society Of The Friends Of Music, Vienna
Composed By – Giuseppe Verdi
Conductor – Fritz Reiner
Engineer – Colin Moorfoot (tracks: 2-8 to 2-11), Gordon Parry (tracks: 1-1 to 2-11), James Brown (tracks: 1-1 to 2-7)
Liner Notes – George Hall
Mezzo-soprano Vocals – Rosalind Elias
Orchestra – Wiener Philharmoniker
Producer – Christopher Raeburn (tracks: 1-1 to 2-7), Erik Smith (tracks: 1-1 to 2-7), Ray Minshull (tracks: 2-8 to 2-11)
Remastered By – Andrew Wedman, Thorsten Weigelt
Soprano Vocals – Leontyne Price
Tenor Vocals – Jussi Björling