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Salzburg Festival 2017: Mozart, Requiem in D minor, K. 626 (2017)
Directed by Henning Kasten
Music · 55m
Mozart’s Requiem – his final and unfinished masterpiece – is an extraordinary work. Discover the piece at the Salzburg Festival in the hands of conductor Teodor Currentzis, the ensemble musicAeterna, Anna Prohaska (soprano), Katharina Magiera (contralto), Mauro Peter (tenor), and Tareq Nazmi (bass). Few musical works are as steeped in legend as Mozart’s Requiem in D minor, K. 626. Commissioned anonymously by the eccentric count Franz von Walsegg, the funereal oeuvre would become Mozart’s last: when he died on December 5, 1791, only the Requiem aeternam and Kyrie movements were fully composed and orchestrated. Completed by other composers (Mozart’s student Franz Xaver Süssmayer in particular) using Mozart’s sketches and notes, the resulting work weaves the emotions we associate with death into a timeless musical exploration of every human being’s destiny, and constitutes a powerful final testament to its creator’s genius.
Cast
Mauro Peter
Tareq Nazmi
Anna Prohaska
Crew
- Director
- Henning Kasten
- Original Music Composer
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Details
- Release date
- 2017-07-23
- Runtime
- 55m
- Genres
- Music
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- Latin
- Countries
- Austria, Germany
- Production
- Unitel, ORF, ZDF, 3sat