557728bk Mozart US 25/11/05 1:19 pm Page 12 Tu suscipe pro animabus illis, accept these for those souls quarum hodie memoriam facimus whose memory we recall today: fac eas, Domine, de morte transire ad vitam, make them, Lord, cross from death to life. MOZART quam olim Abrahae promisisti as you once promised to Abraham et semini ejus. and his seed. # V. Sanctus (Chorus) # V. Holy, holy, holy (Chorus) Requiem Sanctus, sanctus, sanctus Dominus Deus Sabaoth, Holy, holy, holy Lord God of Sabaoth. pleni sunt coeli et terra gloria tua. Heaven and earth are full of your glory. Osanna in excelsis. Hosanna in the highest. Allan • Buter • Ullmann • Snell $ VI. Benedictus (Soloists & Chorus) $ VI. Blessed is he (Soloists and Chorus) GewandhausKammerchor Benedictus, qui venit in nomine Domini. Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. Osanna in excelsis. Hosanna in the highest. Leipziger Kammerorchester % VII. Agnus Dei (Chorus) % VII. Lamb of God (Chorus) Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, Lamb of God, that takes away the sins of the Morten Schuldt-Jensen dona eis requiem. world, grant them rest. Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, Lamb of God, that takes away the sins of the dona eis requiem sempiternam. world, grant them eternal rest. VIII. Communio VIII. Communion ^ Lux Aeterna (Soprano and Chorus) ^ Let eternal light (Soprano and Chorus) Lux aeterna luceat eis, Domine, Let eternal light shine upon them, O Lord, cum sanctis tuis in aeternum, with your saints for ever, quia pius es. for you are merciful. Requiem aeternam dona eis, Eternal rest grant to them, O Lord, Domine, et lux perpetua luceat eis and let perpetual light shine upon them, cum sanctis tuis in aeternum. with all your saints for ever. 8.557728 12 557728bk Mozart US 25/11/05 1:19 pm Page 2 Wolfgang Amadeus Preces meae non sunt dignae, My prayers are unworthy, sed tu, bonus, fac benigne, but you, in goodness, act kindly, MOZART ne perenni cremer igne. so that I do not burn in eternal fire. (1756-1791) Inter oves locum praesta, Among the sheep grant me a place et ab haedis me sequestra, and separate me from the goats, 1 Inter natos mulierum, K.72 5:09 statuens in parte dextra. putting me on your right hand. 2 Misericordias Domini, K.222 6:02 9 Confutatis (Chorus) 9 Let the cursed ones be confounded (Chorus) Confutatis maledictis, Let the cursed ones be confounded, Requiem in D minor, K.626 (completed by Franz Xaver Süssmayr) 40:54 flammis acribus addictis, committed to harsh flames: 3 I Introitus: Requiem aeternam (Mozart) 4:05 voca me cum benedictis. summon me among the blessed. 4 II Kyrie eleison (Mozart) 2:15 Oro supplex et acclinis, I beg you, suppliant, bowing down, III Sequentia cor contritum quasi cinis my contrite heart like ashes, 5 Dies irae (Mozart, Süssmayr) 1:38 gere curam mei finis. care for me at my ending. 6 Tuba mirum (Mozart, Süssmayr) 2:46 7 Rex tremendae majestatis (Mozart, Süssmayr) 1:47 0 Lacrimosa (Chorus) 0 Tearful, that day (Chorus) 8 Recordare, Jesu pie (Mozart, Süssmayr) 4:27 Lacrimosa dies illa, Tearful, that day 9 qua resurget ex favilla on which shall rise from the ashes Confutatis maledictis (Mozart, Süssmayr) 1:51 judicandus homo reus. guilty man, to be judged. 0 Lacrimosa dies illa (Bars 1-8 by Mozart, the rest by Süssmayr) 2:38 Huic ergo parce Deus, Therefore, O God, spare this man. IV Offertorium: pie Jesu Domine, O merciful Lord Jesus, ! Domine Jesu Christe (Mozart, Süssmayr) 3:05 dona eis requiem! Amen! grant them rest. Amen. @ Hostias et preces (Mozart, Süssmayr) 3:18 IV. Offertorium IV. Offertory # V Sanctus (Süssmayr) 1:23 ! Domine Jesu Christe (Soloists & Chorus) ! Lord, Jesus Christ (Soloists and Chorus) $ VI Benedictus (Süssmayr) 4:24 Domine Jesu Christe, Rex gloriae Lord, Jesus Christ, King of glory, % libera animas omnium fidelium defunctorum free the souls of all the faithful departed VII Agnus Dei (Süssmayr) 2:25 de poenis inferni et de profundo lacu. from the pains of hell and the deep lake: ^ VIII Communio: Lux aeterna (Süssmayr, after Mozart’s Introitus & Kyrie) 4:52 Libera eas de ore leonis, free them from the mouth of the lion, ne absorbeat eas tartarus, lest Tartarus take them, ne cadant in obscurum: lest they fall into darkness: sed signifer sanctus Michael but the standard-bearer St Michael Miriam Allan, Soprano • Anne Buter, Mezzo-Soprano repraesentet eas in lucem sanctam, shall lead them into holy light: Marcus Ullmann, Tenor • Martin Snell, Bass quam olim Abrahae promisisti as once you promised to Abraham GewandhausKammerchor • Leipziger Kammerorchester et semini ejus. and his seed. Morten Schuldt-Jensen @ Hostias (Chorus) @ Sacrifice and prayers (Chorus) Hostias et preces tibi, Domine, Sacrifice and prayers of praise laudis offerimus. we offer you, O Lord: 8.557728 2 11 8.557728 557728bk Mozart US 25/11/05 1:19 pm Page 10 Mors stupebit et natura, Death shall stand stupefied and nature, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791) cum resurget creatura, when the creature shall rise Requiem in D minor, K. 626 judicanti responsura. to answer to the one that judges. Born in Salzburg in 1756, the son of a leading court unpaid assistant to the Kapellmeister at St Stephen’s Liber scriptus proferetur, The written book shall be brought forward musician, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, through the Cathedral in Vienna, with right of succession to the in quo totum continetur, in which everything is contained indulgence of his father Leopold’s employer, the aging incumbent. Together with the actor-manager unde mundus judicetur. by which the world shall be judged. Archbishop of Salzburg, was able to amaze audiences Emanuel Schikaneder he was busy with a new German throughout Europe as an infant prodigy. Adolescence opera, Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute), to be Judex ergo cum sedebit, So the judge shall sit, and early manhood proved less satisfactory. Salzburg, mounted in the autumn, while Prague had commissioned quidquid latet apparebit, whatever is hidden shall be seen: under a new Archbishop from 1772, seemed to have from him a coronation opera, La clemenza di Tito (The nil inultum remanebit. nothing shall remain unavenged. little to offer, although it did provide an element of Clemency of Titus), a work staged there in September, security for the family. Leopold Mozart, now Vice- to the expressed contempt of the new Emperor’s wife. Quid sum miser tunc dicturus, What am I, a wretch, to say? Kapellmeister, had largely sacrificed his own career as a Mozart’s wife Constanze was later to claim that her quem patronum rogaturus, Whom seek to intercede, composer to that of his son, but prudence kept him in husband had a premonition that the Requiem was an cum vix justus sit securus? when the just man is barely safe? Salzburg. Mozart, however, first tried to seek his fortune omen of his own coming death. The work had been elsewhere in 1777, when, having secured his dismissal commissioned anonymously in July 1791 by Count 7 Rex tremendae (Chorus) 7 King of fearful majesty (Chorus) from the court musical establishment, he travelled to Franz Walsegg zu Stuppach, acting through his steward Rex tremendae majestatis, King of fearful majesty, Mannheim and to Paris, hoping to find a position that Franz Anton Leutgeb or another intermediary, who qui salvandos salvas gratis, who grants salvation to those to be saved, would provide scope for his genius. Unsuccessful in his sought to commemorate the recent death of his wife by salva me, fons pietatis. save me, fount of mercy. quest, he returned reluctantly to Salzburg, where his the performance of a work of this kind that he might, at father had arranged his reinstatement in the service of least by implication, claim as his own. While no 8 Recordare (Soloists) 8 Remember, merciful Jesus (Soloists) the Archbishop. It was largely through connections intention of this kind was revealed to Mozart, an initial Recordare Jesu pie, Remember, merciful Jesus, made at Mannheim that he received a request for an fee of sixty ducats was paid, with promise of a further quod sum causa tuae viae; that I am the reason for your life: opera to be mounted in Munich, where the Elector now sum when the Requiem was completed. In the event ne me perdas illa die. do not destroy me on that day. had his seat. Idomeneo, re di Creta was successful there Mozart did not live to finish the work. In November he early in 1781, but immediately afterwards Mozart was was taken ill and within a fortnight he was dead. On 4th Quaerens me sedisti lassus, Seeking me, you lived in weariness, told to join the entourage of the Archbishop of Salzburg December he felt well enough to sing, from his bed, redemisti crucem passus; suffered the cross and redeemed me: in Vienna. Here Mozart’s impatience and feeling of parts of the unfinished work. Benedikt Schack, Tamino tantus labor non sit cassus. let such labour not be in vain. frustration led to a break with his patron and a final in Die Zauberflöte, sang the soprano part in falsetto, period of precarious independence in Vienna, without Mozart sang alto, the violinist Hofer, husband of Juste judex ultionis, O just judge of vengeance, the security of Salzburg or the immediate prudent advice Constanze’s sister Josefa, the Queen of the Night, sang donum fac remissionis, grant me remission of his father. At first things seemed to go well. Without tenor, and Franz Gerl, whose wife played Papagena, ante diem rationis. before the day of reckoning. seeking his father’s approval, he married one of the while he took the part of Sarastro, sang bass.