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Mozart, Davis, BBC
Requiem, K.626
Genre: Classical

Track Listings (14) - Disc #1
1. Introitus: Requiem Aeternam
2. Kyrie
3. Sequentia: Dies Irae
4. Sequentia: Tuba Mirum
5. Sequentia: Rex Tremendae
6. Sequentia: Recordare
7. Sequentia: Confutatis
8. Sequentia: Larcrimosa
9. Offertorium: Domine Jesu Christe
10. Offertorium: Hostias
11. Sanctus: Sanctus
12. Sanctus: Benedictus
13. Agnus Dei
14. Communio: Lux Aeterna

CD Details

All Artists: Mozart, Davis, BBC
Title: Requiem, K.626
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: RCA
Release Date: 11/9/1991
Genre: Classical
Styles: Opera & Classical Vocal, Historical Periods, Classical (c.1770-1830), Early Music
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 090266059928

Synopsis

Amazon.com

In part because no one knows what Mozart really intended, interpretations of his Requiem range from the grand and operatic, of which this recording is an example, to the intimate, restrained, and idiosyncratic. There is room for all of them. This is a good place to start for those who like a big chorus, big orchestra, and big sound. A gloriously theatrical reading, it is forceful in the climaxes, warmly expressive in the softer pages. The wonderful solo quartet, showcased to great effect in the Recordare, seems to have just stepped off the opera stage. The 1990 recording, a coproduction of BMG Classics and the Bavarian Radio, offers close-up, sumptuous sound. --Ted Libbey

CD Reviews

Some signs of life, but is the corpse just twitching?

Santa Fe Listener | Santa Fe, NM USA | 05/20/2006

(2 out of 5 stars)

"Colin Davis's Sixties recording of the Mozart Requiem has lasted for forty years as a perfect example of the middle way in this work. It uses a mid-sized orchestra and chorus that produces a romatnic but not Victorian sound. As an alternative to the lumbering verions of the past and the anemic "period" readings to come, Davis's account satisfied on all counts. As so often happens with him, this later remake (1990) with the Bavarian Radio Symphony is tired and sluggish, a pale shadow of Davis's earlier triumph. The chorus is large and recorded in a cavernous space. The solo quartet shows ability but comes nowhere near the earlier vocalists in naturalness and simplicity. There are occasional signs of lfie, but overall this performance is its own requiem."