Kerstin Straßburg & Jürgen Appell - Opus summum viri summi - Mozart: Requiem K. 626 (2024) [Digital Download 24/96]

The supreme work of the most extraordinary man: this is what the composer Johann Adam Hiller called Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "Requiem", which is now being released by Genuin in an unusual arrangement. The piano duo Kerstin Straßburg and Jürgen Appell have recorded for the first time the astonishing four-hand piano version of the Mozart Requiem by Carl Czerny, a pupil of Beethoven and teacher of Liszt. The choral parts, vocal solos, and all the orchestral parts have been incorporated into the piano part, allowing the polyphonic beauty of Mozart's work to emerge in a kind of concentration with unimaginable clarity. The world premiere recording of this version on CD also contains the moving Amen fugue to the "Lacrymosa", which the New York pianist Robert D. Levin reconstructed from fourteen bars of Mozart's handwriting discovered several years ago.

Tracklist:
01. Requiem in D Minor, K. 626 (Arr. for Piano 4-Hands by C. Czerny): I. Introitus. Requiem aeternam
02. Requiem in D Minor, K. 626 (Arr. for Piano 4-Hands by C. Czerny): II. Kyrie
03. Requiem in D Minor, K. 626 (Arr. for Piano 4-Hands by C. Czerny): IIIa. Sequentia. Dies irae
04. Requiem in D Minor, K. 626 (Arr. for Piano 4-Hands by C. Czerny): IIIb. Sequentia. Tuba mirum
05. Requiem in D Minor, K. 626 (Arr. for Piano 4-Hands by C. Czerny): IIIc. Sequentia. Rex tremendae
06. Requiem in D Minor, K. 626 (Arr. for Piano 4-Hands by C. Czerny): IIId. Sequentia. Recordare
07. Requiem in D Minor, K. 626 (Arr. for Piano 4-Hands by C. Czerny): IIIe. Sequentia. Confutatis
08. Requiem in D Minor, K. 626 (Arr. for Piano 4-Hands by C. Czerny): IIIf. Sequentia. Lacrymosa
09. Requiem in D Minor, K. 626 (Compl. R. Levin): Amen (Arr. for Piano 4-Hands by K. Straßburg and J. Appell)
10. Requiem in D Minor, K. 626 (Arr. for Piano 4-Hands by C. Czerny): IVa. Offertorium. Domine Jesu
11. Requiem in D Minor, K. 626 (Arr. for Piano 4-Hands by C. Czerny): IVb. Offertorium. Hostias
12. Requiem in D Minor, K. 626 (Arr. for Piano 4-Hands by C. Czerny): V. Sanctus
13. Requiem in D Minor, K. 626 (Arr. for Piano 4-Hands by C. Czerny): VI. Benedictus
14. Requiem in D Minor, K. 626 (Arr. for Piano 4-Hands by C. Czerny): VII. Agnus Dei - VIII. Communio. Lux aeternam


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