Hasse’s small-scale Requiem in B flat major, which Carus has published for the first time, was presumably composed as early as the second half of the 1750s. Nothing is known about the occasion for which this beautiful work was composed, or even whether it was performed during the composer’s lifetime. Perhaps the Seven Years War, in which the electorate of Saxony was involved, prevented any performance. Several borrowings from it in his Requiem in C major and in the later Requiem in E flat major show that Hasse held the work in high regard.
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Live recording from Dresden, Kreuzkirche, 20.11.2022
Carine Tinney, Soprano
Anna-Maria Tietze, Mezzosoprano
Marie Bieber, Alto
Vocal Concert Dresden
Dresdner Instrumental-Concert
Conductor: Peter Kopp
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- Requiem aeternam
- Te decet hymnus
- Kyrie eleison
- Domine Jesu Christe
- Hostias et preces
- Sanctus
- Benedictus
- Osanna
- Agnus dei
- Lux Aeterna
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Composer
Johann Adolf Hasse
| 1699-1783
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Editor
Wolfgang Hochstein
| 1950
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Vocal score arranger
Harry Schröder
| 1956-2022
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Das umfangreiche Vorwort bietet nicht nur zahlreiche Informationen zur Peripherie und Entstehung der Komposition, sondern auch wertvolle Hinweise zur (historisch informierten) Ausführung insbesondere der Orchesterstimmen.
Kirchenmusik im Bistum Limburg, 02/2023
Hasses Werk schließt nicht alle Teile eines Requiems ein – vielleicht, weil die Totenmesse damals nicht zur Aufführung kam? Einen unvollendeten Eindruck macht das immerhin etwas vierzigminütige Werk aber nicht. Viele Teile sind positive Anrufungen, entsprechend darf sich das Requiem in Schönheit gewanden. Auf den verhalten-dunklen Beginn („Requiem aeternam“ / „Ewige Ruhe“) folgt die Aufhellung („et lux“ / „es leuchte“) sogleich auch musikalisch.
Wolfgang Quellmalz, Dresdner Neueste Nachrichten, 22.11.2022
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