Franz Lachner: Requiem in F minor

Just as Mozart’s 100th birthday was being celebrated in 1856, Franz Lachner (1803-1890) composed his Requiem in F minor, Op. 146, which was to become one of his most famous works during his lifetime. At the time, no less than Robert Schumann described Lachner as the most talented and knowledgeable of the southern German composers, though this did not prevent the piece, along with the rest of Lachner’s output, from being largely forgotten after his death. The Augsburg Chamber Soloists under Hermann Meyer take on this forgotten masterpiece of Romantic choral music and show how right Schumann was in his assessment.

World premiere recording