The King's Consort Robert King - M. Haydn: Requiem in C Minor & Chiemsee-Messe [CD]

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The King\u2019s Consort\u2019s latest foray into the studio brings us a thrilling new recording of Michael Haydn\u2019s Requiem, and reveals the little-known \u2018St Ursula\u2019 Mass to be a truly exceptional work.\r
The Requiem was composed in response to tragedy, the death of Haydn\u2019s patron\u2014the Prince-Archbishop of Salzburg\u2014providing the official cloak for an outpouring of grief as much inspired by the death of the composer\u2019s infant daughter. In itself the work is a memorable and confident example of the genre, but its deserved fame has been somewhat eclipsed by the many striking similarities between the Haydn and Mozart Requiems; when Wolfgang Amadeus composed what was to be his last\u2014and most famous\u2014work a full twenty years after Haydn\u2019s memorial to the archbishop had been first performed, he doubtless intended it as the highest of praise to his friend that he borrowed melodies, rhythms, scoring, structure \u2026 Such points of musicological interest must no longer be allowed to obscure the worth of the Haydn\u2019s original magnum opus.\r
Some three dozen Mass-settings by Michael Haydn survive. The Missa in honorem Sanctae Ursula (also known as the \u2018Chiemsee-Messe\u2019) currently rests in relative obscurity, being performed rarely and hardly touched in the recording studio. And yet Robert King, his choir, soloists and orchestra here demonstrate this to be a work of great beauty and intense power, with a place both in the liturgy and as a showcase for excellent performances.

Introitus - Requiem aeternam - Kyrie eleison

Kyrie

Sequenz - Dies irae

Gloria

Offertorium - Domine Jesu Christe

Credo - Credo in unum Deum

Versus - Hostias et preces tibi

Credo - Et incarnatus est

Sanctus et Benedictus - Sanctus

Credo - Et resurrexit tertia die

Sanctus et Benedictus - Benedictus

Sanctus

Agnus Dei et Communio - Agnus Dei - Lux aeterna

Benedictus

Agnus Dei et Communio - Cum sanctis tuis

Agnus Dei - Agnus Dei

Requiem aeternam - Requiem aeternam - Cum sanctis tuis

Agnus Dei - Dona nobis pacem