Search - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Kuijken String Quartet :: Mozart: Requiem, Version for String Quartet [Hybrid SACD]

A must have if your a fan of this piece.

Anton Karidian | Toronto | 11/25/2004

(5 out of 5 stars)

"The Kuijken Kwartet performs an rare arrangement of this piece scored for a string quartet by Peter Lichtenthal -- a younger contemporary and pupil of Mozart.



The arrangement is based on Sussmayr's version of the requiem.



Sensitively, though perhaps a little too daintily performed.



"

An intimate requiem

Antonio Mustaros | Naucalpan, Estado de México Mexico | 05/25/2009

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This an excellent arrangement of Mozart's Requiem, all the sounds of the original are there in a reduced form for only four instruments. The Kuijken Kwartet have a long history in period performances with quality and depth as their principal characteristics.

Just for the record, abusing of Vibrato is not a practice of the classical period, it is a popular technique in the romantic era that survives in the traditional musicians and directors of modern orchestras in the XXI century, so it is not a mistake to play Mozart without vibrato, and that doesn't happen in the Kuijken's version, they use vibrato as a tool to emphasies certain passages not as a sitematic abuse of it. This is a superb rendition of one of Mozart's masterworks."