Requiem

Mozart (Artist), Buter (Artist), Ullmann (Artist), Gewandhaus Kammerchor (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 21, 2006)
• SPARS Code: DDD
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Naxos
• ASIN: B000B6N6AE
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #186,665 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Simply Marvelous: It has made me a convert to the piece!, May 9, 2006

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J Scott Morrison (Middlebury VT, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Requiem (Audio CD)

You may want to reject my review as being relatively uninformed because I have been, in the past, completely averse to the Mozart Requiem. I can't explain that except to recall that my first exposure to the work was from a recording of the old bloated, 100-voice choir and full orchestra sort. It put me off the thing. I am ashamed to admit that I have gone through life thinking I didn't like the work -- in spite of being a real lover of Mozart's music in general -- and I had never owned another recording of it nor sought out a live performance of it. I have been castigated by fellow music-lovers as being a philistine. So be it.

But the wonderful thing is that this recording -- which I acquired almost by chance -- has made a believer of me. I cannot enter into the musicological pros and cons of Sussmayer's completion; it all sounds like Mozart to me. But the best thing is that this performance is fleet, clean, bright and shiny with a simply marvelous chamber chorus (the Gewandhaus Kammerchor) and a chamber orchestra drawn from players in the Leipzig Gewandhaus orchestra. The chorus's ability to sing the tricky, fast contrapuntal lines is astonishing. They are abetted by an orchestral accompaniment that uses the best of the performance-practice gestures learned from the HIP crowd. The soloists are each quite fine even though I'd never heard of any of them. (I particularly like the bass, Martin Snell.) Conductor Morten Schuldt-Jensen, a Danish choral specialist, shapes the music with loving care but without self-indulgent swooning.

The first two tracks, before the Requiem, are two offertory choruses I'd never heard before. Each is very impressive, especially 'Inter natos mulierum' with its unusual scoring for choir, strings, organ and three trombones.

So, if you're in the market for a budget-priced Mozart Requiem this is possibly the one for you. It certainly sold me.

Scott Morrison

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best version of Requiem I've found yet, May 19, 2009

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Mark Twain (Washington, DC) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Mozart: Requiem In D Minor (MP3 Download)

Very different from most recordings of Mozart's Requiem. It is my favorite that I've found yet. There mix is very dry, so it sounds very clear and present -- almost like it is recorded in your local church, rather than in a cathedral. Choir is fantastic, very clear and bell like. Highly recommended for those interested in a good recording of Mozart's beautiful and haunting spiritual masterpiece.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Highly musical performance of the Mozart Requiem, November 10, 2006

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Carl S. Hagelin (River Edge, NJ United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Requiem (Audio CD)

The lean, early instrumental texture is matched by a clean choral performance rich with fitting yet bold phrasing. My ears picked up in the first four bars.