Baxer's Requiem

“DECCA has used the most recent digital and Cedar technology to improve the original sound, under the overall supervision of veteran technician James Lock. This is one of the great performances of recording history.” Over half a century has passed since this classic DECCA recording was made in Kingsway Hall, London in January 1963. While the performance remains a benchmark, time has left the original analogue master tapes more fragile than ever.

The War Requiem, Op. 66, is a large-scale, non-liturgical setting of the Requiem composed by Benjamin Britten mostly in 1961 and completed in January 1962. The War Requiem was performed for the consecration of the new Coventry Cathedral, which was built after the original fourteenth-century structure was destroyed in a World War II bombing raid. The traditional Latin texts are interspersed, in telling juxtaposition, with settings of poems by Wilfred Owen, written in World War I.

Après le grand succès de leur premier enregistrement pour Arcana, consacré à deux chefs-d'oeuvre restés non publiés de Pergolesi, Giulio Prandi et le Coro e Orchestra Ghislieri nous reviennent avec un enregistrement consacré au Requiem de Niccolò Jommelli. Composé en 1756 pour les obsèques de la mère du duc de Wurtemberg, il est devenu le Requiem le plus populaire en Europe jusqu à 1791, date de la composition de celui de Mozart.

After the great success of their first disc for Arcana featuring two unpublished masterpieces by Pergolesi, which won the ‘Diapason Découverte’ award, Giulio Prandi and the Coro e Orchestra Ghislieri return with a new recording, devoted to Niccolò Jommelli’s Requiem. Composed in 1756 for the solemn obsequies of the Duke of Württemberg’s mother, it became the most popular Requiem setting in Europe until Mozart’s, written in 1791.

The Academy Of St. Martin-In-The-Fields, conducted by Neville Marriner, offer Mozart: Requiem, Krönungsmesse / Coronation Mass, Exsultate, Jubilate Litany K195. This was released by London Records in 1994 and is a reissue/remaster of works released in 1967, 1972, and 1977.

Recorded in association with a live performance from Birmingham’s Symphony Hall in 2022, this account of Stanford’s Requiem from Martyn Brabbins and massed Birmingham forces thrillingly captures all the grandeur and intimacy of a neglected choral epic.

Recorded in association with a live performance from Birmingham’s Symphony Hall in 2022, this account of Stanford’s Requiem from Martyn Brabbins and massed Birmingham forces thrillingly captures all the grandeur and intimacy of a neglected choral epic.