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Mozart's Requiem
- Chœur des Marais
A choir from Villefranche-sur-Saône, France, with the Orchestre de chambre lyonnais conducted by Jacques Berthelon. Recorded live on 16 June 1998 at the Théâtre de Villefranche-sur-Saône.
- Soloists
Isabelle Eschenbrenner, Jeanne-Marie Levy, François Jacquet, François Bazola.
- classicals.de
The publisher that keeps and distributes this recording under the CC BY-NC 4.0 licence.
© Chœur des Marais, Villefranche sur Saône, Fr, CC-BY-NC-4.0 · classicals.de
Vivaldi's Four Seasons
- John Harrison
The solo violinist, with the Wichita State University Chamber Players conducted by Robert Turizziani. A concert recording made on 6 February 2000 at Wiedemann Recital Hall, Wichita, USA.
- Wikimedia Commons
Where this recording is kept and shared under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
John Harrison, Wichita State University Chamber Players · CC BY-SA 4.0, CC-BY-SA-4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Chopin's First Piano Concerto
- Hayato Sumino
Pianist, with the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Marin Alsop. Recorded live on 10 September 2022 at The Symphony Hall, Osaka.
- The pianist's YouTube channel
The recording is published here under a CC BY 3.0 licence.
Hayato Sumino, Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Marin Alsop · CC BY 3.0, CC-BY-3.0 · YouTube (Cateen)
Sources
Mozart's Requiem
- Austrian National Library
The autograph of the Requiem, Mus.Hs. 17561. Digital copies of the manuscript pages, which the library allows to be used freely with attribution.
- IMSLP
The score and vocal parts in the public domain: they are what the text and the stage were checked against.
- Requiem scholars
Christoph Wolff, Robert Levin, Richard Maunder and other scholars who studied the manuscript and the later completions of the Requiem. We took facts from their work and checked the legends against it.
Vivaldi's Four Seasons
- Uppsala University Library
A copy of the first edition of 1725, digitised and released into the public domain. The pages in the “1725 score” tab come from it.
- Mutopia Project
The score, newly typeset from the 1725 edition (CC BY-SA 3.0): we used it to check over which bars the lines of the sonnets stand and who comes in when on the stage.
- Vivaldi scholars
Paul Everett, Michael Talbot and other scholars, from whose work we took the facts about the piece and its later history.
Chopin's First Piano Concerto
- Fryderyk Chopin Institute
Chopin's letters in the Polish originals: the source of the words under the music and of the dates of the rehearsals and the premiere.
- Chopin's First Editions Online
The catalogue of Chopin's first editions by Christophe Grabowski and John Rink: it tells us how the concerto was printed in 1833.
- Libraries and museums
The Internet Archive, the National Library of Poland and the National Museum in Warsaw, which opened up scans of the score, the newspaper and the paintings of those years.
Where to next
- 01Mozart's RequiemA prayer for those who cannot be brought back. Mozart's last work: he did not live to finish it, and his pupil did.
- 02Vivaldi's Four SeasonsA year from the first flowers under the snow to a hard winter. Each season has a sonnet, and its lines are printed right in the score.
- 03Chopin's First Piano ConcertoThe farewell music of a twenty-year-old Chopin. We follow the piano as it talks with the orchestra, and read his letters from those very days.
