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Mozart: Requiem | 
 enlarge | Creator: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Label: Sony Classical
Category: Music
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Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 10782
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
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Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
EAN: 5099708928827
ASIN: B00004TY4W
Release Date: November 5, 2001
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| Tracks:
| • | Requiem K. 626 - Introitus - Requiem | | • | Requiem K. 626 - Kyrie | | • | Requiem K. 626 - Sequenz | | • | Requiem K. 626 - Dies Irae | | • | Requiem K. 626 - Tuba Mirum | | • | Requiem K. 626 - Rex Tremendae | | • | Requiem K. 626 - Recordare | | • | Requiem K. 626 - Confutatis | | • | Requiem K. 626 - Lacrimosa | | • | Requiem K. 626 - Offertorium | | • | Requiem K. 626 - Domine Jesu | | • | Requiem K. 626 - Hostias | | • | Requiem K. 626 - Sanctus | | • | Requiem K. 626 - Benedictus | | • | Requiem K. 626 - Agnus Dei | | • | Requiem K. 626 - Communio - Lux Aeterna | | • | Exsultate, Jubilate K. 165 - Allegro | | • | Exsultate, Jubilate K. 165 - Recitativo - (Andante) | | • | Exsultate, Jubilate K. 165 - (Allegro) |
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| Customer Reviews:
Powerful listening March 11, 2002
mikejforde@hotmail.com (Portsmouth, England)
184 out of 191 found this review helpful
Mozart's Requiem has to be one his most famous pieces, and this recording does it many favours. The "Confutatis" is renowned as the most visual movement, and the Gaechinger Kantorei and Bach-Collegium Stuttgart play with such passion, the emotions and visions of hell mustered up are clear in all senses. If anyone has ever seen the film Amadeus, the pictures from the film are instantly remembered as the orchestra plays the music written by Mozart to his death, resulting in his death. The soloists and chorus are as equally sensitive as they are passionate and harsh. The orchestra accompanying to perfection adding emotion, both destructive and eerie, especially in the "Dies Irae", with repetitive flourishes in the strings and the wind keeping the melodies continuing. The professionalism and musicality of the performers is showed off with much delight in the "Tuba Mirum" with the four soloists appearing together for the first time, the string sections beautifully adding texture to the entire structure. The angelic woodwind in the Recordare, sustained above pulsing strings paves the way for the gentle appearance of the soloists leading onto angrier melodies. As mentioned, the Confutatis is by far the most passionate, but followed by the spooky Lacrimosa, performed with such sensitivity, the true despair of a pressured composer is not only felt but also shared. The control of conductor Helmuth Rilling is clearly evident in the variation of dynamics and emotion expressed by both orchestra and chorus in Domine Jesu, with precise expertise being expressed in the fugal section by the soloists. The final part, Communio - Lax Aeterna, combines the passion, expertise, and tranquillity of orchestra, chorus and soloists in an amalgamation of praise to god through prayer and through music, interdependent of each other in this glorious gratefulness of life.The "Exultate, jubilate", written for Europe's most celebrated castrato singer when Mozart was just 16 years of age, is one of his most acclaimed shorter vocal settings. The Alleluia concluding this wonderfully performed piece allows such a grand virtuoso performance from soloist. The co-ordination between woodwind and strings is not only evident but nearing perfection throughout all three movements. All in all a very easy CD to listen to, empowering all the emotions from joy, celebration and praise through to destruction, demise and visions of hell. Five out of Five!!!
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