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Messa da Requiem: 2. Dies irae

Ernst‐Senff‐Chor, Berliner Philharmoniker, Carlo Maria Giulini, Ernst Senff

8 cited facts

1990
2:43
130 BPM · C major

What connects this song

Credits it shares with other songs, each from a cited source. Tap a number or a name.

Released on Decca Records, also Sympathy for the Devil (The Rolling Stones), Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree (Brenda Lee) and La Vie en rose (Louis Armstrong)
Written by Giuseppe Verdi, also Rigoletto: “Gualtier Maldè! … Caro nome” (Norberto Mola), La traviata: Atto I. “Libiamo ne’lieti calici” (Brindisi) (London Opera Chorus) and Rigoletto: Atto III. “La donna è mobile” (Luciano Pavarotti)
Part of The 101 Most Essential Classical Music Pieces Ever, also Impromptus, D. 899, Op. 90: No. 4 in A-Flat Major: Allegretto (Silvia Čápová)

Worth knowing

Counted from cited credits on fono.

Giuseppe Verdi wrote 625 songs on fono
Giuseppe Verdi’s most frequent co-writer is Francesco Maria Piave (173 songs together)
Giuseppe Verdi first appears on fono in 1954, 36 years before this song

Credits

All 7 credits

Written by: Giuseppe Verdi
Performed by: Berliner Philharmoniker, Carlo Maria Giulini, Ernst Senff and Ernst‐Senff‐Chor
Part of: The 101 Most Essential Classical Music Pieces Ever
Released on: Decca Records

Written by: Giuseppe Verdi
Performed by: Berliner Philharmoniker, Carlo Maria Giulini, Ernst Senff and Ernst‐Senff‐Chor
Part of: The 101 Most Essential Classical Music Pieces Ever
Released on: Decca Records

Other songs that share a producer, writer, studio or label with this one.

Same writer: Giuseppe Verdi
Rigoletto: “Gualtier Maldè! … Caro nome”
Norberto Mola, Coro del Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Maria Callas, William Dickie, Renato Ercolani, Carlo Forti, Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Tullio Serafin
1986
Same label: Decca Records
Sympathy for the Devil
The Rolling Stones
1968
Same release: The 101 Most Essential Classical Music Pieces Ever
Impromptus, D. 899, Op. 90: No. 4 in A-Flat Major: Allegretto
Silvia Čápová
1989
Same writer: Giuseppe Verdi
La traviata: Atto I. “Libiamo ne’lieti calici” (Brindisi)
London Opera Chorus, Luciano Pavarotti, Joan Sutherland, National Philharmonic Orchestra, Richard Bonynge
1980
Same label: Decca Records
Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree
Brenda Lee
1958
Same writer: Giuseppe Verdi
Rigoletto: Atto III. “La donna è mobile”
Luciano Pavarotti, London Symphony Orchestra, Richard Bonynge
1982
Same label: Decca Records
La Vie en rose
Louis Armstrong, Sy Oliver and His Orchestra
1952

Elsewhere

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1MusicBrainz Messa da Requiem: 2. Dies irae was performed by Berliner Philharmoniker
Messa da Requiem: 2. Dies irae was performed by Berliner Philharmoniker
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2MusicBrainz Messa da Requiem: 2. Dies irae was performed by Carlo Maria Giulini
Messa da Requiem: 2. Dies irae was performed by Carlo Maria Giulini
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3MusicBrainz Messa da Requiem: 2. Dies irae was performed by Ernst Senff
Messa da Requiem: 2. Dies irae was performed by Ernst Senff
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4MusicBrainz Messa da Requiem: 2. Dies irae was performed by Ernst‐Senff‐Chor
Messa da Requiem: 2. Dies irae was performed by Ernst‐Senff‐Chor
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5MusicBrainz Messa da Requiem: 2. Dies irae was written by Giuseppe Verdi
Messa da Requiem: 2. Dies irae was written by Giuseppe Verdi
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6MusicBrainz Messa da Requiem: 2. Dies irae is part of the release The 101 Most Essential Classical Music Pieces Ever
Messa da Requiem: 2. Dies irae is part of the release The 101 Most Essential Classical Music Pieces Ever
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7MusicBrainz Decca Records is the label of the song Messa da Requiem: 2. Dies irae
Decca Records is the label of the song Messa da Requiem: 2. Dies irae
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8MusicBrainz Messa da Requiem: 2. Dies irae was released on 1990
Messa da Requiem: 2. Dies irae was released on 1990
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