An unfinished masterpiece, a musical testament, a timeless sacred composition that transcends the liturgical framework, Mozart’s Requiem amasses superlatives. By the time of his death on 5 December 1791, the composer had fully completed the Introit and the Kyrie, and largely defined the content of the next five parts, from the Dies Irae to the Confutatis.

Since then, the work has given rise to a thousand hypotheses, numerous versions of the unfinished pages and, above all, splendid interpretations: it magnetises the listener as well as the performer, and finally imposes itself almost entirely in the form left by Mozart. It is as if these last notes, from the still-risen pen of a dying composer, were all the more precious…

Royal Opera Productions.

Mozart : Requiem

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)

Exsultate Jubilate

Requiem

I – Introitus : « Requiem »

II – Kyrie

III – Sequenz

1 – Dies irae

2 – Tuba mirum

3 – Rex tremendae

4 – Recordare

5 – Confutatis

6 – Lacrimosa

IV – Offertorium

1 – Domine Jesu

2 – Hostias

V – Sanctus

VI – Benedictus

VII – Agnus dei

VIII – Communio : « Lux aeterna »