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Jared wrote:Fergus, you could do worse than start here...

I have tracked down that set Jared and it now looks like this in a re-issue.....



....and it will be bought soon!!

Seán wrote:I rarely listen to Mozart's music. This is simply gorgeous Sacred Music, I must return to it again soon, perhaps I should get the Harnoncourt recording?

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
REQUIEM in D minor KV 626
Pamela Heuvelmans, soprano;
Barbera Werner, alto;
Robert Morvaj, tenor;
Thomas Pfeiffer, bass;
Chamber Choir of Europe
Süddeutsches Kammerorchester Pforzheim
Nicol Matt, conductor

Check out this one Sean.

Mozart's Requiem is a special work indeed Seán. I have three versions of it (including the original issue of the one Dave posted above, which is very good) with at least one more to come. Top of my list, however, is the Gardiner version which is a very powerful and dramatic reading.

fergus wrote:Mozart's Requiem is a special work indeed Seán. I have three versions of it (including the original issue of the one Dave posted above, which is very good) with at least one more to come. Top of my list, however, is the Gardiner version which is a very powerful and dramatic reading.

Yes, I suppose I always think of Harnoncourt first and then look to other options. I must get another version but it's not my top priority for now.

I have been working my way through the 4 box sets of the JSB Cantatas by Suzuki over the past number of weeks and I finally played the last disc in the last box this evening....



....wonderful performances throughout!

Seán wrote:I rarely listen to Mozart's music. This is simply gorgeous Sacred Music, I must return to it again soon, perhaps I should get the Harnoncourt recording?

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
REQUIEM in D minor KV 626
Pamela Heuvelmans, soprano;
Barbera Werner, alto;
Robert Morvaj, tenor;
Thomas Pfeiffer, bass;
Chamber Choir of Europe
Süddeutsches Kammerorchester Pforzheim
Nicol Matt, conductor

you really need to rectify the apparent lack of Mozart in your life Sean...

if you're going to get an HIP version of the Requiem, might I suggest you try the John Eliot Gardiner?

I'm on four copies of the requiem now....

I started out with


karajan and the berlin phil (which I still love; in much the same way that I still love kempff

playing beethoven sonatas, cause he was the first I heard)

then i moved on to the Gardiner on Diapason's recommndation about 15 years ago!!

I bought the Harnoncourt version recently based on a sampler cd of his (miserere) but I don't really like it....

Ortrun Wenkel (Alto), Elisabeth von Magnus (Alto), Robert Holl (Bass), László Polgár (Bass), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Composer), et al.

I do want to get this though

If you're looking for more Mozart Requiem recommendations, then the one conducted by Peter Schreier on Philips is excellent



It's not period performance, but it is a very gripping performance of the work.

I also have the Gardiner: I got it because I really loved his record of the Mozart great c minor Mass:



(strongly recommended) but I always found Gardiner's Requiem disappointing!

jaybee wrote: I do want to get this though

please also consider the Pinnock version of the Coronation Mass, which includes Exultate Jubilate and Vesperae Solonnes

Ciaran wrote:

I do not have that version but Hogwood's....either way it is a magnificent work.