℗ 1951 Decca Music Group Limited
| Released | 1951 |
| Duration | 55m 47s |
| Record Label | Universal Music Australia Pty. Ltd. |
| Genre | Classical |
Mozart: Requiem (Remastered 2024)
Wiener Hofmusikkapelle, Wiener Philharmoniker, Josef Krips
Available in MQA and 48 kHz / 24-bit AIFF, FLAC audio formats
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Requiem, K. 626
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1.1
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I. Introitus. Requiem aeternam
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; Franz Xaver Süssmayr; Anonymous; Wiener Hofmusikkapelle; Wiener Philharmoniker; Josef Krips |
5:12 | |||
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1.2
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II. Kyrie
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; Franz Xaver Süssmayr; Anonymous; Wiener Hofmusikkapelle; Wiener Philharmoniker; Josef Krips |
2:44 | |||
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1.3
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IIIa. Dies irae
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; Franz Xaver Süssmayr; Anonymous; Wiener Hofmusikkapelle; Wiener Philharmoniker; Josef Krips |
1:53 | |||
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1.4
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IIIb. Tuba mirum
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; Franz Xaver Süssmayr; Anonymous; Walther Ludwig; Harald Pröglhöf; Hans Breitschopf; Werner Pech; Wiener Hofmusikkapelle; Wiener Philharmoniker; Josef Krips |
3:52 | |||
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1.5
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IIIc. Rex tremendae
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; Franz Xaver Süssmayr; Anonymous; Wiener Hofmusikkapelle; Wiener Philharmoniker; Josef Krips |
3:04 | |||
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1.6
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IIId. Recordare
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; Franz Xaver Süssmayr; Anonymous; Werner Pech; Harald Pröglhöf; Hans Breitschopf; Walther Ludwig; Wiener Hofmusikkapelle; Josef Krips; Wiener Philharmoniker |
5:31 | |||
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1.7
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IIIe. Confutatis
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; Franz Xaver Süssmayr; Anonymous; Wiener Hofmusikkapelle; Wiener Philharmoniker; Josef Krips |
3:09 | |||
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1.8
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IIIf. Lacrimosa
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; Franz Xaver Süssmayr; Anonymous; Wiener Hofmusikkapelle; Wiener Philharmoniker; Josef Krips |
4:02 | |||
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1.9
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IVa. Domine Jesu
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; Franz Xaver Süssmayr; Anonymous; Werner Pech; Harald Pröglhöf; Hans Breitschopf; Walther Ludwig; Wiener Hofmusikkapelle; Wiener Philharmoniker; Josef Krips |
4:09 | |||
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1.10
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IVb. Hostias
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; Franz Xaver Süssmayr; Anonymous; Wiener Hofmusikkapelle; Wiener Philharmoniker; Josef Krips |
5:00 | |||
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1.11
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V. Sanctus
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; Franz Xaver Süssmayr; Anonymous; Wiener Hofmusikkapelle; Wiener Philharmoniker; Josef Krips |
1:52 | |||
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1.12
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VI. Benedictus
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; Franz Xaver Süssmayr; Anonymous; Werner Pech; Harald Pröglhöf; Hans Breitschopf; Walther Ludwig; Wiener Hofmusikkapelle; Wiener Philharmoniker; Josef Krips |
5:22 | |||
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1.13
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VII. Agnus Dei
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; Franz Xaver Süssmayr; Anonymous; Wiener Hofmusikkapelle; Wiener Philharmoniker; Josef Krips |
4:04 | |||
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1.14
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VIII. Communio. Lux aeterna
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; Franz Xaver Süssmayr; Anonymous; Werner Pech; Wiener Hofmusikkapelle; Wiener Philharmoniker; Josef Krips |
5:53 | |||
Born and raised in Vienna, Josef Krips trained as a choirboy and studied with Felix Weingartner, who then hired him as a repetiteur at the Volksoper. He his debut there in 1921, before graduating to the Vienna State Opera in 1933. In the aftermath of the Second World War, it was Krips above all who reformed and re-trained the State Opera as a world-class ensemble, and in the most difficult conditions. His pragmatism and understated authority made him a model recording conductor, and Decca hired him to work with orchestras in several of their centres of activity.
Mozart was forever Krips’s hero: ‘My maxim is that everything has to sound as though it were by Mozart, or it will be a bad performance. When you perform Mozart, everything has to be crystal clear, everything has to be in balance and everything has to have a relaxed sound.’
Compiled here for the first time, as one of a two-volume Krips edition, are the conductor’s complete mono recordings for Decca beginning with Kingsway Hall sessions in October 1947. Mozart symphonies, concertos, overtures and arias appeared on 78s – newly transferred for this set by Andrew Hallifax. From the early LP era comes the first-ever complete recording of Die Entführung aus dem Serail, with a cast entirely drawn from the Vienna State Opera company, and (also from 1950) a remarkably forward-looking account of the Requiem, recorded with a cathedral-style all-male chorus including boys on the top line, much closer to Mozart’s world than contemporary, symphonic-style versions of the piece.
Combined with Decca’s famous ‘ffrr’ sound, these Mozartian qualities also illuminate Krips’s mono recordings of symphonies by Haydn, Beethoven, Brahms and Schubert, concertos by Schumann and Dvořák, Johann Strauss waltzes and a version of Mendelssohn’s Elijah which combines the best of the British oratorio tradition with an operatic momentum and a gently glowing orchestral palette.
Distinguished soloists on these recordings include Clifford Curzon and Mischa Elman in Mozart; Zara Nelsova in Dvořák’s Cello Concerto; and Hilde Gueden, Maria Reining, Anton Dermota and Richard Lewis singing opera arias (recorded on 78, several receiving their first digital transfer in this box).
48 kHz / 24-bit PCM – Universal Music Australia Pty. Ltd. Studio Masters
| Track title | Peak (dB FS) | RMS (dB FS) | LUFS (integrated) | DR | |
Album average Range of values | -4.06 -8.38 to -1.45 | -22.63 -28.16 to -18.77 | -18.56 -24.40 to -15.80 | 11 10 to 13 | |
| 1 | I. Introitus. Requiem aeternam | -2.78 | -20.80 | -16.0 | 10 |
| 2 | II. Kyrie | -2.16 | -18.77 | -15.9 | 11 |
| 3 | IIIa. Dies irae | -2.98 | -19.02 | -16.0 | 10 |
| 4 | IIIb. Tuba mirum | -8.38 | -28.16 | -24.4 | 13 |
| 5 | IIIc. Rex tremendae | -2.84 | -20.86 | -16.2 | 11 |
| 6 | IIId. Recordare | -6.46 | -27.39 | -23.6 | 13 |
| 7 | IIIe. Confutatis | -4.79 | -25.83 | -21.5 | 12 |
| 8 | IIIf. Lacrimosa | -4.08 | -23.54 | -19.4 | 11 |
| 9 | IVa. Domine Jesu | -2.77 | -21.41 | -17.9 | 12 |
| 10 | IVb. Hostias | -1.45 | -20.37 | -15.8 | 11 |
| 11 | V. Sanctus | -3.83 | -21.44 | -17.9 | 10 |
| 12 | VI. Benedictus | -5.62 | -23.96 | -20.2 | 11 |
| 13 | VII. Agnus Dei | -3.91 | -23.10 | -17.1 | 11 |
| 14 | VIII. Communio. Lux aeterna | -4.77 | -22.14 | -18.0 | 11 |