Mozart: Requiem in D minor, K626

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Balance generally...is superbly managed by the experienced conductor, Laurence Equilbey...Her soloists, too, match well as a quartet...for all Equilbey's avoidance of theatricality it's the sense... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2014, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 29th Sep 2014
Catalogue No: V5370
Label: Naive
Length: 48 minutes

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Mozart: Requiem in D minor, K626

Work length48:38

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Sandrine Piau (soprano), Sara Mingardo (contralto), Werner Güra (tenor), Christopher Purves (bass-baritone)
Accentus Chamber Choir, Insula Orchestra
Laurence Equilbey
Recorded: February 2014
Recording Venue: Chapelle Royale de Versailles, France

Introit: Requiem aeternam (Chorus)

Track length4:27

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Kyrie eleison (Chorus)

Track length2:33

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Sequence No. 1: Dies Irae (Chorus)

Track length1:52

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Sequence No. 2: Tuba mirum (Soprano, Alto, Tenor, Bass)

Track length3:44

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Sequence No. 3: Rex tremendae majestatis (Chorus)

Track length2:03

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Sequence No. 4: Recordare, Jesu pie (Soprano, Alto, Tenor, Bass)

Track length5:38

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Sequence No. 5: Confutatis maledictis (Chorus)

Track length2:35

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Sequence No. 6: Lacrimosa dies illa (Chorus)

Track length3:18

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Offertory No. 1: Domine Jesu Christe (Chorus)

Track length3:23

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Offertory No. 2: Hostias et preces (Chorus)

Track length3:27

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Sanctus (Chorus)

Track length1:27

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Benedictus (Soprano, Alto, Tenor, Bass)

Track length5:21

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Agnus Dei (Chorus)

Track length3:19

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Communion: Lux aeterna (Soprano, Chorus)

Track length5:31

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This is a new performance of one of the most emblematic music works ever created - composed in Mozart's final year and unfinished, the work is still today shrouded in mystery. It is the debut recording of Insula Orchestra, a new formation (on period instruments) co-founded in 2012 by Laurence Equilbey. Along with an impressive range of soloists and Accentus, one of the leading European choirs, also founded by Laurence Equilbey 20 years ago, they offer an intense and stylish interpretation of Mozart's Requiem, recorded in the Chapelle Royale of Château de Versailles.

Laurence Equilbey, the conductor and music director of Insula orchestra and Accentus, is today highly regarded for her artistic rigour and open-minded approach. With Accentus, Laurence Equilbey continues to explore the large repertory of vocal music and to support contemporary creation. Their numerous recordings on Naive have received widespread critical acclaim. She is also artistic and pedagogical director of the training department for young singers at the CRR in Paris.

In 2012, with the support of the Conseil Général des Hauts-de-Seine, she founded Insula orchestra, a period-instrument group dedicated to the Classical and pre-Romantic repertoire. The 2014/15 season will see the orchestra’s first concert outside France, at the Mozartwoche in Salzburg, and the release of its first disc, the present recording of the Mozart Requiem.

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Christmas 2014

Balance generally...is superbly managed by the experienced conductor, Laurence Equilbey...Her soloists, too, match well as a quartet...for all Equilbey's avoidance of theatricality it's the sense of detail, care and attention she imparts as well as fluency that makes her interpretation memorable.

January/February 2015

It’s rare to hear a Requiem so bracingly and affirmatively sung.

January 2015

a very fine and very satisfying performance indeed.

28th September 2014

There is a superb high-level quartet of soloists, with Werner Güra’s ringing tenor prominent and Sandrine Piau’s plainsong icy sharp. The wiry Insula Orchestra is softened by basset horns and bassoons, while the Accentus choir has a light European texture, robust where needed, but in the female voices of Voca me cum benedictis echoing ethereally into eternity.

Early Music Today March/May 2015

Equilbey’s tempi have an un-indulgent discipline that maintains the velocity of the faster movements to exciting effect. The chamber choir Accentus should be better known outside of France: their sound is vibrant and fresh. The recording’s team of soloists is very well balanced, underpinned ably by Christopher Purves’ velvety bass-baritone.

Mozart: Requiem in D minor, K626

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