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A Requiem for Rossini Getting

At 2315 a distant and Friday, November 13, 1868, Rossini died at his villa in Passy. The news was soon known and the expressions of condolence were happening one after another. Among professional colleagues, the death of regret generally caused great sorrow.

A Giuseppe Verdi he had an idea to honor the teacher, to coordinate the collective composition of a requiem by the leading musicians of the moment and once completed, put on stage in order to pay homage to Rossini. And indeed the project was conducted: Verdi was slowly contacting with different composers and the work was taking shape over the remainder of 1868 and 1869.

In the summer of 1869, the collective work was finished. It then proceeded to edit the score, leaving the body of the Requiem numbers as follows:

1. Requiem, composed by Antonio Buzzolla . For choir.
2. Kyrie, composed by Antonio Buzzolla . For choir.
3. Dies Irae, consisting of Joseph Antonio Bazzini . For choir.
4. Mirum Tuba, composed Carlo Pedrotti. For baritone soloist and choir.
5. Quid sum miser, composed by Antonio Cagnoni . For soprano and mezzo.
6. Recordare Jesu, composed by Federico Ricci . For soprano, mezzo-soprano, tenor and bass.
7. Ingemisco composed by Alessandro Nini . For tenor and chorus.
8. Confutatis composed Raimondo Boucheron. For choir.
9. Oro supplex, Raimondo Boucheron composed . Bass and chorus.
10. Lacrimosa, composed by Carlo Coccia . For choir.
11. Amen, composed by Carlo Coccia . For choir.
12. Domine Jesu, composed by Gaetano Gaspari . For choir.
13. Quam olim Abrahao, composed by Gaetano Gaspari . For soprano and chorus.
14. Hostias composed Gaetano Gaspari. For soprano, mezzo-soprano, tenor and bass.
15. Quam olim Abrahao, composed by Gaetano Gaspari . For soprano and chorus.
16. Sanctus - Hosanna, composed by Pietro Platania . For soprano and chorus.
17. Benedictus - Hosanna, composed Pietro Platania . For soprano and chorus.
18. Agnus Dei, composed Lauro Rossi. For mezzo-soprano.
19. Lux Aeterna, composed Teodulo Mabellini . For tenor, baritone and bass.
20. Libera me - Dies Irae, composed by Giuseppe Verdi . For soprano and chorus.
21. Requiem aeternam - Libera me, Giuseppe Verdi composed . For soprano and chorus.

thought for release on 13 November of that year, 1869, coinciding with the first anniversary since the death of the teacher. The collective score was already edited and ready to be played, but for various reasons over the opening edges and different parts the Requiem was delivered to their respective composers to give them each use they wanted (Verdi use his hand to his Requiem). As a tribute to the deceased, rather than the collective mass interpreted the Stabat Mater of Rossini himself.

may think that a work composed of thirteen different feathers cohesion may suffer. Nothing could be further from reality. And to prove I invite you to hear the next recording, from Montpellier and dated July 31, 1998, as it should have sounded the November 13, 1869:

Here tab Cast: Soprano

: Luana De Vol
Mezzosoprano: Phylis Ponchella
Tenor: Rockwell Blake
Baritone: Stefano Antonucci
Low: Felipe Bou

Orchestre Philharmonique de Montpellier Languedoc -Rousillon
Radio Choeurs Letton · Enrique Dimecque

Homogeneous and cohesive quintet enjoys an intense and nuanced direction by Enrique Dimecque . To highlight the work of Rockwell Blake during the extensive "Ingemisco", the vocal power of Luana De Vol in the "Libera Me" and the elegance of Stefano Antonucci in the "Tuba Mirum."

The recording, from a radio recording and very good sound, is fragmented into tracks as usual. The first CD is included from the "Requiem" Buzzolla to the "Amen" of Coccia. The second CD picks up from the "Domine Jesu" from Gaspari to the "Requiem aeternam" from Verdi.

And finally, I leave the links here:


CD1 CD2

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you enjoy this heartfelt tribute to a great as it was Rossini.