tracks

Introduction Organ Processional: François Couperin: Messe à L’usage Ordinaire Des Paroisses: Offertoire Sur Les Grands Jeux (excerpt)·
Requiem In D Minor K 626
Introitus: Requiem (chorus, Soprano I)
Kyrie (chorus)
Oratio – Epistola – Graduale – Tractus
Sequentia
Dies Irae (chorus)
Tuba Mirum (soloists)
Rex Tremendae (chorus)
Recordare (soloists)
Confutatis (chorus)
Lacrimosa (chorus)
Evangelium
Offertorium
Domine Jesu (chorus, Soloists)
Hostias (chorus)
Praefatio – The Canon of the Mass
Sanctus (chorus)
Consecratio Missae
Benedictus (soloists, Chorus)
Pater Noster
Agnus Dei (chorus)
Communio
Communio: Lux Aeterna (soprano I, Chorus)
Postcommunio: Louis Couperin: Chaconne

notes

A Solemn Pontifical Requiem Mass in memory of John Fitzgerald Kennedy celebrated by Richard Cardinal Cushing

Cathedral of the Holy Cross
Boston, Massachusetts
Sunday, January 19, 1964

In tribute to the memory of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the performing artists in this recording have contributed their services, and RCA Victor will contribute its normal proceeds to the John F. Kennedy Memorial Library Fund in Boston.

Chorus pro Musica
Alfred Nash Patterson director
Harvard Glee Club & Radcliffe Choral Society
Elliot Forbes director
New England Conservatory Chorus
Lorna Cooke deVaron director
St. John’s Seminary Choir
Rt. Rev. Russell H. Davis director
BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
ERICH LEINSDORF music director

Sara Mae Endich soprano
Eunice Alberts contralto
Nicholas DiVirgilio tenor
Mac Morgan baritone

Mastered at JVC Mastering Center, Yokohama from original sources using 24bit/96 kHz technology
Cover and back cover from original LP RCA LSC-7030

Photos pp. 7/8 & 24/25: photographer unknown; p. 33: photographer unknown C Sony Music Entertainment;
p. 48: official portrait of President John F. Kennedy by Louis Fabian Bachrach, Jr.

88883720792 P1964 & C 2013 Sony Music Entertainment
Distributed by Sony Music Entertainment
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Sony Classical and care trademarks of Sony Music Entertainment

credits

Composed By – Mozart,
Conductor [Music Director] – Erich Leinsdorf
Design – [ec:ko] Communications
Engineer – Lewis Layton
Liner Notes – Richard Evidon
Liner Notes [Booklet Editor] – Jochen Rudelt
Liner Notes [Translated By] – Eva Zöllner, Josée Bégaud
Orchestra – Boston Symphony Orchestra
Producer – John Pfeiffer, Richard Mohr
Reissue Producer – Anthony Fountain (2), Robert Russ
Remastered By – Kazuie Sugimoto

companies

Phonographic Copyright (p) – Sony Music Entertainment
Copyright (c) – Sony Music Entertainment
Distributed By – Sony Music Entertainment
Mastered At – JVC Mastering Center

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