W.A. Mozart - Requiem in D minor, K. 626 - Unfinished Fragment Version with Score

With the exception of the Kyrie (which was fully orchestrated colla parte by two unknown hands after Mozart’s death), this recording of Mozart’s Requiem consists only of what the composer himself put to paper before his demise. Only the first movement - the Requiem aeternum - was completed by Mozart; the rest of the score consists of the fully written choral parts, a basso continuo (cello, bass and organ) line and occasionally written out bars of the upper strings and woodwinds to link the vocal material together. This recording was originally interspersed with “Sieben Klangräume,“ a dissonant soundscape inspired by Mozart’s final days written by contemporary composer Georg Friedrich Haas. Those sections have been removed here. Furthermore, the sketch for an ’Amen’ fugue intended to close the Sequenz has been included from a similar recording by Das Neue Orchester and Chorus Musicus Koln conducted by Christoph Spering. Recorded live at the Lutherkirche Bad Cannstadt