CD 1:
Missa Solemnis pro Die Acclamationis Johannis VI

CD 2:
Requiem
Marche funebre & Miserere

Almost forgotten nowadays, the composer Sigismund Neukomm was extremely famous in his own time. Already, even when Beethoven was still alive, it was a mass by Neukomm that was chosen for the commemoration of the death of Louis XVI at the Congress of Vienna (1815). It was also Neukomm who was commissioned to write the Te Deum performed at Notre-Dame for Louis XVIII’s solemn entry into Paris in 1814. And it was he who was invited to conduct Mozart’s ‘Coronation’ Mass and Requiem at the unveiling of the monument to the composer in Salzburg in 1842.

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Recordings: Live recording at Église Notre Dame des Anges, Tourcoing (France) on 3 & 5 October 2008 (CD 1); Live recording at Église Saint-Martin de Hoff, Sarrebourg (France) on 6 July 2008 (CD 2).