Mozart's Requiem renewed by Benjamin-Gunnar Cohrs in Dortmund

By Ken Ward, 25 September 2013

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Reviewed at St Marienkirche, Dortmund on 21 September 2013

Mozart, Offertory in D minor, "Misericordias Domini", K222 (K205a)

Cherubini, Requiem in C minor (Requiem aeternam)

Haydn, Salve Regina Hob XXIIIb:1

Haydn, Libera me, Domine in D minor, Hob XXIIb:2

Mozart, Motet in D major, "Ave verum Corpus", K618

Mozart, Requiem in D minor, K626

Karolina Brachman, Soprano

Dorothe Ingenfeld, Mezzo-soprano

Jan Hübner, Tenor

George Stevens, Bass

Beate Röllecke, Organ

Alsfeder Vokal-Ensemble

Göttinger Barockensemble

Benjamin-Gunnar Cohrs, Conductor

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Ken Ward

Ken Ward spent most of his working life driving buses for Eastern National and London Buses. With a life-long enthusiasm for the works of Bruckner, he became editor of The Bruckner Journal in 2005 and was awarded The Bruckner Society of America 'Kilenyi' Medal of Honor in 2011.