Martini: Requiem for Louis XVI & Marie Antoniette

Listen on Presto Music. Free thirty day trial. Find out more.

Release Date: 24th Feb 2017
Catalogue No: CHR77413
Label: Christophorus
Length: 73 minutes

Usually despatched in 3 - 4 working days

Gluck: De profundis clamavi in D Minor

Work length7:28

$2.00

$2.60

Musica Franconia Festival Choir, La Banda
Wolfgang Riedelbauch

Martini, J P: Messe de Requiem

Work length1:06:10

$15.00

$19.45

Corinna Schreiter (soprano), Markus Simon (bass), Martin Platz (tenor)
Musica Franconia Festival Choir, La Banda
Wolfgang Riedelbauch
Recorded: 23 July 2016
Recording Venue: Live recording, Wallfahrtskirche Maria Hilf, Freystadt, Germany

Requiem aeternam

Track length11:55

$3.00

$3.85

Dies irae

Track length7:48

$2.00

$2.60

Liber scriptus

Track length6:07

$1.00

$1.30

Rex tremendae

Track length4:05

$1.00

$1.30

Ingemisco

Track length5:49

$1.00

$1.30

Oro supplex

Track length6:50

$1.00

$1.30

Offertorium Domine: Jesu Christe

Track length5:07

$1.00

$1.30

Sanctus

Track length2:34

$1.00

$1.30

Elevatione Domine omnipotens

Track length3:03

$1.00

$1.30

Noli meminisse

Track length3:24

$1.00

$1.30

Agnus Dei

Track length4:19

$1.00

$1.30

Amen

Track length5:09

$1.00

$1.30

About
Explore

About

Live recording 23rd July 2016, Wallfahrtskirche Maria Hilf at Freystadt, Martini's birthplace.

Louis XVI was the last king of France (1774-92) in the line of Bourbon monarchs preceding the French Revolution of 1789. Louis and his queen consort, Marie-Antoinette, were guillotined in 1793 on charges of counter-revolution.

Following the abdication of Napoleon Bonaparte in 1814, the Bourbons returned to power in France and restored the system of monarchy under Louis XVIII. During this process, they also introduced a number of highly symbolic cultural acts as a public representation of the Bourbon dynasty. In 1815, the new king Louis XVIII had the mortal remains of Louis XVI and his wife Marie Antoinette removed from the Cimetière de la Madeleine in a solemn ceremony, taken to Saint Denis and placed in separate graves in the crypt. It therefore came about that Jean Paul Egide Martini, 'Surintendant de la musique du roi' and composer of the famous 'Plaisir d’Amour', was offered the prestigious commission to compose the first large-scale Requiem in memory of Louis XVI. His work was first performed in the Cathedral of Saint Denis on 21 January 1816, the anniversary of the execution.

World premiere recordings

Martini: Requiem for Louis XVI & Marie Antoniette

CD

Downloads

Contents

Download queue