Requiem

The original version of the Requiem is for soli, chorus and orchestra and was composed in 1998/1999. The work was written in honour and in memory of Padre Pio, to commemorate the thirtieth anniversary of his death (on 23 September 1998). Antonio Cocomazzi is originally from San Giovanni Rotondo, a small town in southern Italy where the friar lived and worked for fifty years.

The Requiem is divided into fourteen pieces of the total duration of about an hour and emphasizes the typical canons of the Requiem Mass with Latin text taken from the Missal. It has characteristics of usability and accessibility and the instrumental writing is dense and "suffers" the texts it deals with. The harmonious architecture is always supported by continuous contrapuntal games and impetuous rhythms.

In 2022, was released the soli, choir and organ version that manteins the vocal parts unchanged but replace the orchestra with the organ (https://fanlink.to/Cocomazzi_Requiem). 

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REQUIEM

ad Patris Pii honorandam memoriam

for soli, choir and orchestra (1998-1999)

INDEX

I INTROITUS

1.Requiem, choir, soprano I

2. II KYRIE, sopranos, tenor, bass, choir

III SEQUENTIA

3. Dies irae, choir

4. Tuba mirum, sopranos, tenor, bass

5. Rex tremendae, choir

6. Recordare, sopranos, tenor, bass

7. Confutatis, choir                               

8. Lacrimosa, sopranos, tenor, bass, choir                                      

IV OFFERTORIUM

9. Domine Jesu Christe, choir, tenor                   

10. Hostias, sopranos, choir                                       

11. V SANCTUS, choir                                 

12. VI BENEDICTUS, sopranos, tenor, bass                          

13. VII AGNUS DEI, soprano II                    

14. VIII COMMUNIO, Lux aeterna, choir, sopranos, tenor, bass

*** It is specified that the Piano Reduction is included in the vocal parts.