Mozart_ Requiem

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Requiem in D minor K626 (ed. R. Levin) / Adagio & Fugue in C minor K546
Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Chorus / Sir Charles Mackerras
SACD ISO (2.0/MCH): 3,02 GB | 24B/88,2kHz Stereo FLAC: 915 MB | Full Artwork
Label/Cat#: Linn Records # CKD 211 | Country/Year: UK 2003 | 5% Recovery Info
Genre: Classical | Style: Viennese School

"…With an addition such as this to the growing classical hi-res discography, Linn matches their reputation for superb recording standards with a genuinely superb performance." ~audiophile-audition

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Requiem in D minor K626 (ed. R. Levin) / Adagio & Fugue in C minor K546
Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Chorus / Sir Charles Mackerras
EAC+LOG+CUE | FLAC: 230 MB | Full Artwork: 88 MB | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: Linn Records # CKD 211 | Country/Year: UK 2003
Genre: Classical | Style: Viennese School

"…With an addition such as this to the growing classical hi-res discography, Linn matches their reputation for superb recording standards with a genuinely superb performance." ~audiophile-audition

The course of my whole life would undoubtedly have been very different if, one October evening in 1955, I had not had been fortunate enough to hear a live rehearsal of Mozart’s Requiem. A few months earlier, on 1st August, I had turned 14, and luck would have it that my teacher, Joan Just (a composer, and the director of the Conservatoire in my home town of Igualada), decided to prepare the work with the choir of the local Schola Cantorum. That evening I was on my way to the Conservatoire to attend my usual counterpoint and harmony lessons with him; for some reason, I didn’t receive the message telling me that classes had been cancelled due to a rehearsal of the Requiem.

In the liner notes to this premiere recording of his completion, Levin says: "The completed version offered in this recording, however, seeks to respect the 200-year-old history of the Requiem . We have tried not to revise as much, but as little as possible and in a manner we fee it faithful to the character, writing, voice leading, design and structure of Mozart's music."

Peter Schreier brought a lifetime's experience as a singer to the conductor's rostrum in his accounts of Mozart's Requiem, Coronation Mass, and motet Ave verum Corpus. The performances were recorded in Dresden between 1982 and 1992. A major plus is highly disciplined singing by the Leipzig Radio Chorus, whose clarity of diction and finely balanced ensemble adds much to your enjoyment of these performances; they're heard on their own account in the motet that concludes this reissue. The Requiem (in Süssmayr's completion) is powerfully and urgently driven.