This unique box set brings together the most important and well known Requiems and liturgical music for the dead, spanning a near 1000 years. Starting with the Gregorian Chant we move to the Renaissance with a Requiem by Ockeghem, through works by Desprez, Palestrina, Purcell, and Praetorius we arrive at the most popular requiem ever written, by Mozart. Following are Requiems by Schumann, Cherubini, Dvoák, Berlioz, Brahms, Fauré, Duruflé, Verdi, Puccini, Howells, Pizzetti and Britten.