Mozart: Requiem

An urgent, dramatic reading … it grips throughout. The recording is hazily reverberant. — BBC Music Magazine, October 2016, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 1st Jul 2016
Catalogue No: GCDC81111
Label: Glossa
Series: Cabinet

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Mozart: Requiem in D minor, K626

Mona Julsrud (soprano), Wilke te Brummelstroete (alto), Zeger Vandersteene (tenor) & Jelle Draijer (bass)
Netherlands Chamber Choir, Orchestra of the 18th Century
Frans Brüggen

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Glossa reinstates to the catalogue a recording which typifies the label’s endeavours as well as being a memorable reflection of the artistry of the Orchestra of the 18th Century and of its conductor Frans Brüggen. An extended and beautiful introduction to the principal work is created by performances of the 'Maurerische Trauermusik' and the 'Adagio for two clarinets and three basset horns', before Brüggen directs a startling and impressive reading of the 'Requiem' - which includes the Introit, Tract and the Offertory sung in plainchant - which has become one of the reference versions of this work. The Metropolitan Space of Tokyo surely experienced an occasion of true magic back in March 1998 which was perfectly captured by the NHK Television microphones and which now can be enjoyed once more.

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October 2016

An urgent, dramatic reading … it grips throughout. The recording is hazily reverberant.

24th July 2016

Brüggen uses Süssmayr’s completion — still preferable to any of the well-intentioned but doomed modern reworkings. He sets quick tempi, but the music never sounds rushed (except, to my mind, in the Recordare) and comes movingly alive in his hands.

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