
Underlined titles are live links
Sir Neville Marriner
Academy and Chorus of St Martin's in the Fields
So far, my favorite recording
Daniel Barenboim, English Chamber Orchestra 1972
Janet Baker, Sheila Armstrong, Nicolei Gedda, Fischer-Diskau
Audio only digitized from original LP
. Magnificent! The orchestra speaks, choir powerful, soloists gorgeous.
So far, my favorite recording.
Leonard Bernstein 1988
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and Choir
Marie mcLaughlin, soprano · Maria Ewig, mezzo soprano ·
Jerry Hadley, tenor · Cornelius Hauptmann, bass
The completion is by Beyer, not Süßmayr
Among the slowest tempi ever, and perhaps the most musical—the tempi allow the inner beauty to emerge.
Karl Bohm, 1971
Gundula Janowitz, Christa Ludwig, Peter Schreier, Walter Berry!!
Live, Pierist Church, Vienna
slow, majestic
Sergiu Celibidache & Munich Philharmonic
Audio recording, the slowest Requiem ever? But grand!
Ceilibidache wanted a transcendent experience for the listener, which, he felt,
could happen only in live performance. Some of his concerts did provide audiences with exceptional and sometimes life-altering experiences, including a 1984 concert in Carnegie Hall by the Orchestra of the Curtis Institute that New York Times critic John Rockwell described as the best of his 25 years of concert-going.
John Eliot Gardiner 2019
Monteverdi Choir - English Baroque Soloists
Barbara Bonney - Anne Sofie von Otter
Choir and soloists all performing from memory.
Transitions from movement to movement heighten the drama.
Philippe Herrewege 2015
Orchestre des Champs-Elysees La Chapelle & Collegium Vocale Royale
Sibylla Rubens, soprano · Annette Markert, alto ·
Ian Bostridge, tenor · Hanno Müller-Brachmann, bass
Philippe Herrewege 2021
Sonorum Concentus Mozart & Classicism
Expressive text accents and eloquent phrasing
Vienna State Opera Chorus and Orchestra (1953, re-mastered 2023)
Hermann Scherchen conductor
Magda László, soprano · Hilde Rössl-Majdan, alto · Petre Munteanu, tenor · Richard Standen, bass
Also slow tempi; audio only
Nathalie Stutzmann 2013
Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo · Coro Acadêmico e Coro da Osesp · Lisa Larsson, soprano · Wilke te Brummelstroete, mezzo soprano · John Mark Ainsley, tenor · Burak Bilgili, baritone
Live
Musical --grainy video that elongates heads
Nathalie Stuzmann 2019
The BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales,
with Fatma Said, Kathryn Rudge, Sunnyboy Dladla and David Shipley
Live
Huge and fabulous choir, all memorized
Colin Davis 2004, Dresden
Expressive dynamics, true to the score
ËVOE MUSIC · Stefan Plewniak 2020
Small choir, fabulous conviction
Philharmonie Salzburg · Elisabeth Fuchs 2023
Chor der Philharmonie Salzburg · Philharmonie Salzburg
Maria Bernius · Katrin Auzinger · Paul Schweinester · Johannes Wimmer
Live at Großer Saal Mozarteum, Salzburg
Orchestre National de France /Chœur de Radio France,
James Gaffigan 2017
Marita Solberg · Karine Deshayes · Joseph Kaiser· Alexander Vinogradov
Live at Basilica of St Denis (France)
Polish Sinfonia Iuventus Orchestra · Warsaw Philharmonic Choir
Bartosz Michałowski – conductor
Sylwia Olszyńska · Agata Schmidt · Karol Kozłowski · Adam Kutnye recorded November 01, 2019, Warsaw Philharmonic Concert Hall
large choir, passionate commitment, live performance in gorgeous venue
Mariss Jansens 2017
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Bavarian Radio Chorus
Genia Kühmeier · Elisabeth Kulman · Mark Padmore · Adam Plachetka
live performance starting at 30'
Bach Choir & Orchestra of the Netherlands 2015
Pieter Jan Leusink
Olga Zinovieva · Sytse Buwalda · Martinus Leusink · Thilo Dahlmann
Live at the Concertgebouw
Small choir, fastest tempi, countertenors in choir and countertenor soloist, Baroque tuning
Jane Glover 2018
Music of the Baroque chorus and orchestra
Live performance at the Harris Theater, Chicago
Arsis Bourgogne · Mihály Zeke, 2017
Live performance
Vienna Philharmonic & State Opera Chorus, Sir Georg Solti, 1991
Arleen Augér, Cecilia Bartoli, Vinson Cole, René Pape
Live, on the 200th anniversary of Mozart's death,
St Stephen's Cathedral, Vienna, where Mozart's wedding and funeral services took place.
Gorgeous piano and pianissimo, and fabulous soloists, to say nothing of orchestra and choir!
Riccardo Muti 1989
Berlin Philharmonic, Swedish Radio Chorus & Stockholm Chamber Choir
Patrizia Pace, Waltraud Meier, Frank Lopardo, James Morris
Audio recording, magnificent voice definition in chorus, esp gorgeous bass and tenor
Von Karajan 1975
Vienna Philharmonic, Vienna Singverein
Anna Tomowa-Sintow, Helga Muller Molinari,
Vinson Cole, Paata Burchalazde
Grainy video recording, iconic performance—the only drama is rightfully in the music
Donald Runnicles BBC Proms
Scottish Youth Choir
Levin completion
Commitment and poise of the choir!
Behind the Notes—Requiem Reference Sources
On the web
David A. McConnell - (2020). A Guide to Mozart Requiem
The meaning of the texts and portrayal in the music
Debi Simons. Mozart Requiem: Text, Composition and Literary/Historical Background
Biblical and etymological information.
Why the Communion wafer in the Roman Catholic Church is called the “host”.
How the idea of light figures into images of heaven.
What part Abraham plays in Christian doctrine.
Classical Notes: Peter Gutmann—Mozart Requiem
Books
Gutman, Robert W. (1999). Mozart. A Cultural Biography. Harcourt Brace.
Keefe, Simon P. (2012). Mozart's Requiem. Reception, Work, Completion. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, U.K.
Mersmann, Hans (1972). Ed. Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Dover
Robbins Landon, H.C. (1988). 1791: Mozart's Last Year. Schirmer, New York, N.Y.
Swafford, Jan (2020). Mozart, The Reign of Love. HarperCollins, New York, NY.
A fabulous biography, all eight hundred pages!
Solomon, Maynard (1995). Mozart A Life. HarperCollins, New York, NY.
Steinberg, Michael (2005). Choral Masterworks: A Listener's Guide. Oxford University Press.
An insightful essay, although i do not agree with Mr Steinberg on the various completions.
Wolff, Christoph (1994). Mozart's Requiem. Historical and Analytical Studies, Documents, Score. Translated from the GermanUniversity of California Press, California.
Comments