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MIDEM Classical Award 2007
The Carus label has been honored with the MIDEM Classical Award 2007 in the category of "First recordings" for:
Of Johann Michael Haydn's two requiem settings, his incomplete late work, the Requiem in B flat major, has remained in the shadow of his so-called "Schrattenbach Requiem" in C minor, composed in 1771. Haydn, almost 70 at the time, who wrote his second "solemn requiem" on commission from the Empress Maria Theresa, could only complete the setting through the beginning of the "Dies irae." Quite similar to Mozart's requiem fragment, Haydn's torso was completed by a musician of a "kindred spirit," since an incomplete Mass for the Dead had scarcely a liturgical use. In 1839 Father Gunther Kronecker, choirmaster of the Benedictine monastery, Kremsmünster, took on this weighty task, and thus was the "Süßmayr to Michael Haydn." Stylistically, his completion of the work - borne on lyrical-cantabile melody displaying at times a folk song character - forms a bridge to the music of Franz Schubert and the Viennese Biedermeier. World premiere recording of this work, as completed by P. Kronecker.
During the award ceremony in Cannes
Dr. Johannes Graulich, Prof. Georg Grün, Julia Vanyushina
Prof. Georg Grün, Julia Vanyushina, Dr. Johannes Graulich Dr. Johannes Graulich, Prof. Georg Grün Information about Johann Michael Haydn
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In the summer of 2006, 121 labels from 19 countries submitted their entries - 630 in all - for the MIDEM Classical Award 2007 to a jury of 19 members from 13 different countries representing specialized media. On 23 January, during the MIDEM 2007 in Cannes, selected CDs were honored in 15 categories (including Early music, Baroque music, Concertos, etc.). The jury also presented awards for "Lifetime Achievement," "Artist of the Year," "Young artist of the Year," and "Label of the Year."
Johann Michael Haydn: Requiem in B MH 838
