Mozart Requiem
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Composer or Director: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Label: Chandos
Magazine Review Date: 2/1988
Media Format: Cassette
Media Runtime: 0
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: ABTD1269

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Composition | Artist Credit |
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Requiem |
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer
David Wilson-Johnson, Baritone English Chamber Orchestra George Guest, Conductor Sarah Walker, Mezzo soprano St John's College Choir, Cambridge William Kendall, Tenor Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer Yvonne Kenny, Soprano |
Composer or Director: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Label: Chandos
Magazine Review Date: 2/1988
Media Format: Vinyl
Media Runtime: 0
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: ABRD1269

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Composition | Artist Credit |
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Requiem |
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer
David Wilson-Johnson, Baritone English Chamber Orchestra George Guest, Conductor Sarah Walker, Mezzo soprano St John's College Choir, Cambridge William Kendall, Tenor Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer Yvonne Kenny, Soprano |
Composer or Director: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Label: Silverline
Magazine Review Date: 2/1988
Media Format: Cassette
Media Runtime: 0
Mastering:
ADD
Catalogue Number: 420 353-4PM

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Composition | Artist Credit |
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Requiem |
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer
(John) Alldis Choir BBC Symphony Orchestra Colin Davis, Conductor Gerd Nienstedt, Bass Helen Donath, Soprano Ryland Davies, Tenor Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer Yvonne Minton, Mezzo soprano |
Composer or Director: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Label: Silverline
Magazine Review Date: 2/1988
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 54
Mastering:
ADD
Catalogue Number: 420 353-2PM

Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
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Requiem |
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer
(John) Alldis Choir BBC Symphony Orchestra Colin Davis, Conductor Gerd Nienstedt, Bass Helen Donath, Soprano Ryland Davies, Tenor Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer Yvonne Minton, Mezzo soprano |
Composer or Director: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Label: Chandos
Magazine Review Date: 2/1988
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 54
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: CHAN8574

Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
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Requiem |
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer
David Wilson-Johnson, Baritone English Chamber Orchestra George Guest, Conductor Sarah Walker, Mezzo soprano St John's College Choir, Cambridge William Kendall, Tenor Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer Yvonne Kenny, Soprano |
Author: Stanley Sadie
If the Guest recording clearly places the work in an ecclesiastical setting, Sir Colin Davis's long-admired one of 20 years ago, now reissued on CD, reminds one of Mozart the opera composer. Some may find the variations in tempo (rallentandos dramatic hesitations and the like), and in dynamic level, a shade too theatrical—and I fancy that Davis himself would do the work more broadly and more soberly now. Yet there is nothing that doesn't arise direct from the music, nothing that strikes a false note, nothing that fails to make an eloquent point. I find it often revealing, always compelling. The choral singing, of course by a mixed choir, Is sure and strong; the solo singing is of a very high order with many exquisite moments afforded particularly by Helen Donath's sweet, ringing soprano and Ryland Davies's lyrical tenor (caught at its best).
It really doesn't make sense to recommend one of these recordings above the other, for they represent the work quite differently, as it were from opposite sides. But both seem to me far preferable to either of the two cited above; Schreier's Philips version seems to me highly professional but cool and wanting in interpretative character, while Karajan's on DG is so wholly dedicated to smoothness of surface that the passion, the sorrow and the dread that stand behind this music are simply ironed out—it happens to be about death, but could be about something quite different. Readers interested in period-instrument versions should see my recent review of Gardiner's recording. (Philips 420 197-2PH, 11/87).'
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