FULL Requiem (Michael Haydn) Finland 2011 Komsi Salomaa Lehtipuu Nygård-Fagerudd
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Requiem or Missa pro defuncto Archiepiscopo Sigismondo
- Composer: Haydn Michael
- Libretto: traditional
- Venue & Opera Company: Finland
- Recorded: 2011
- Type: Concert Live
- Singers: Anu Komsi, Petteri Salomaa, Topi Lehtipuu, Wivan Nygård-Fagerudd
- Conductor: Andres Mustonen
- Orchestra: Finnische Radio Sinfonieorchester
- Chorus: Helsinki Chamber Chorus
- Stage Director:
- Costume Designer:
Information about the Recording
- Published by: ARTE
- Date Published: 2011
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: nosubs
- Video Recording from: YouTube FULL VIDEO
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
Michael Haydn wrote the Missa pro defuncto Archiepiscopo Sigismondo, or more generally Missa pro Defunctis, Klatzmann I:8, MH 155, following the death of the Count Archbishop Sigismund von Schrattenbach in Salzburg on December 1771. Haydn completed the Requiem before the year was over, signing it “S[oli] D[eo] H[onore] et G[loria.] Salisburgi 31 Dicembre 1771.” At the beginning of that year, his daughter Aloisia Josefa died. Historians believe “his own personal bereavement” motivated the composition. Contemporary materials which have survived to the present day include the autograph score found in Berlin, a set of copied parts with lots of corrections in Haydn’s hand in Salzburg and another set at the Esterházy castle in Eisenstadt, and a score prepared by the Salzburg copyist Nikolaus Lang found in Munich.
The mass is scored for vocal soloists and mixed choir, 2 bassoons, 4 trumpets in C, 3 trombones, timpani and strings with basso continuo.
1.- “Requiem aeternam…” Adagio, C minor, common time
2.- Sequentia “Dies irae, …” Andante maestoso, C minor, 3/4
3.- Offertorium Domine Jesu Christe, “Rex gloriae, …” Andante moderato, G minor, common time
– “Quam olim Abrahae…” Vivace, G minor, cut time
4.- “Hostias et preces…” Andante, G minor, common time
– “Quam olim Abrahae…” Vivace e più Allegro, G minor, cut time
5.- “Sanctus, Sanctus Dominus…” Andante, C minor, 3/4
6.- “Benedictus qui venit…” Allegretto, E-flat major, 3/4
7.- Agnus Dei et Communio “Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi…” Adagio con moto, C minor, common time
– “Cum sanctis tuis…” Allegretto, C minor, cut time
– “Requiem aeternam…” Adagio, C minor, common time
– “Cum sanctis tuis…” Allegretto, C minor, cut time