SKU: CA.5165203

ISBN 9790007294243. Key: D minor. Latin.

The English conductor and composer Howard Arman has presented us with a completed version of Mozartâ??s Requiem. â??Another one?â? you might ask, since this publication is only the latest in a long line reaching back to the traditional SüÃ?mayr version. Yet such is the enormous power of Mozartâ??s score that the challenge and appeal of completing it remain undiminished. After two decades of intensive study, Howard Armanâ??s additions to Mozartâ??s great original show the requisite care and respect while incorporating many new insights.

Armanâ??s approach is particularly fruitful. Always aware of the appropriate limits to such re-creative work, he orients himself towards the typical characteristics of Mozartâ??s brilliant composing style: The masterly compositional technique, the search for innovative solutions to every problem, and even the terse treatment of the text with extremely suggestive harmonies. All of this leads to a number of new listening experiences. In the Tuba mirum, for example, we enjoy a warm, cohesive ensemble sound, supported by the bassoons, which depart from the bass line. The Confutatis presents a quite different picture: Even the basset horns are drawn down into the infernal depths. This effect is reinforced by the independence of the trombones; rather than simply following the choral parts, the instrumentâ??s unique sound is given an opportunity to shine. Armanâ??s Lacrimosa achieves a lively Mozartian feel by granting the voices considerable freedom rather than following a rigid pattern. And he concludes the movement with a fugal Amen, whereby the focus is not so much on the counterpoint itself, but rather â?? in the spirit of Mozart â?? on creating a sense of drama and illuminating the theme in all its possible facets. Mozartâ??s fragment ends with the Hostias, and so does Armanâ??s completion.

For the four following movements (Sanctus to Communio) we have nothing from Mozart, and so here, where the master is silent, Arman finally returns to Sü�mayr, the man who was closest to Mozart at the time of his death and whose efforts to fill the blank manuscripts still garner our respect today.

Armanâ??s version has already proven its practical value. The premiere with the Bavarian Radio Choir was enthusiastically received by audiences and press alike â?? and celebrated as offering a scholarly, entirely fresh perspective on Mozartâ??s masterpiece.

- World premiere by the Bavarian Radio Choir
- Enthusiastically received by audience and press.

SKU: HL.50565207

SKU: LM.26626

ISBN 9790230966269.

BACH : Bourree BWV 996 (suite n. 1 pour luth) - Polonaise BWV Anh.119 (Petit livre d'A.M. Bach) - BEETHOVEN : Marche funebre (Symphonie n. 3 Op.55) - CHARPENTIER : Prelude (Te Deum) - DI CAPUA : O sole mio - JOPLIN : The Easy Winners - KUHLAU : 6 Petites variations (Op.42 n. 1) - LISZT : Rhapsodie hongroise n. 2 - MOZART : Concerto pour piano n. 23 KV 488 (theme du 2e mvt) - PONCHIELLI : Danse d'heures (La Gioconda) - STRAUSS (fils) : Tritsch Tratsch Polka Op.214 - Le Sang viennois - TCHAIKOVSKI : Danse des mirlitons - WAGNER : Marche nuptiale (Lohengrin) - Choeur des pelerins (Tannhauser) - TRADITIONNEL : Guantanamera.

SKU: LM.25439

ISBN 9790230954396.

BEETHOVEN : Danse allemande - Hymne a la Joie - Lettre pour Elise - BIZET : Marche (Carmen) - BRAHMS : Berceuse Bonsoir, bonne nuit - Danse hongroise n. 5 - CHOPIN : Tristesse (Etude Op.10 n. 3) - DELIBES : Valse Lente (Coppelia) - DVORAK : Humoresque Op.101 n. 7 - Largo (Symphonie du Nouveau Monde) - HAENDEL : Largo (Xerxes) - HAYDN : Danse allemande - Symphonie La Surprise - JOPLIN : The Entertainer - LISZT : Reve d'amour (Nocturne n. 3) - MARTINI : Plaisir d'amour - MOZART : Air du champagne (Don Juan) - Menuet (Don Juan) - Marche turque (Sonate KV 331) - Menuet KV 2 - Petite musique de nuit (Serenade KV 525) - OFFENBACH : Cancan (Orphee aux Enfers) - RAMEAU : Menuet - SCHUBERT : Ecossaise Op.18 n. 4 - Marche militaire - Valse Le desir - STRAUSS (fils) : Le Beau Danube bleu - Valse de l'Empereur - TCHAIKOVSKI : Capriccio italien Op.45 - TRADITIONNEL : Greensleeves - Hava Nagila - Pop Corn - Rock Around the Clock - When the Saints go Marchin'in - VERDI : Choeur des esclaves (Nabucco) - La Donna e Mobile (Rigoletto) - Marche triomphale (Aida) - WAGNER : Marche nuptiale (Lohengrin).