France's Naïve label continues to reissue recordings from the catalog of the small Opus 111 imprint, many of them small gems of Baroque and Classical music. Here is one from the fine Belgian historical-performance ensemble Il Fondamento. Johann Adolf Hasse is remembered mostly as an opera composer, but he also contributed copiously to the large corpus of now-undiscovered religious music of the middle eighteenth century. The Requiem in C major that makes up the bulk of the present disc, in particular, was widely recognized ...
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France's Naïve label continues to reissue recordings from the catalog of the small Opus 111 imprint, many of them small gems of Baroque and Classical music. Here is one from the fine Belgian historical-performance ensemble Il Fondamento. Johann Adolf Hasse is remembered mostly as an opera composer, but he also contributed copiously to the large corpus of now-undiscovered religious music of the middle eighteenth century. The Requiem in C major that makes up the bulk of the present disc, in particular, was widely recognized for its originality in Hasse's own time, as is attested to by the large numbers of copies of the work that have been found all over Europe. The major key gives a hint of the from-a-modern-perspective unusual qualities of this work, which little resembles Mozart's Requiem in D minor, K. 626, or the long tradition of works that remembered it. The mood from the start is, if not sunny, at least serene, and even the texts depicting the day of judgment pass only as stormy ripples in a clear...
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Add this copy of Requiem to cart. $4.59, good condition, Sold by Goodwill of Orange County rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Santa Ana, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2008 by Opus 111.
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