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MauritiusToday.com - Shopping Mall - Mozart: Requiem / McNair, Watkinson, Araiza, Lloyd; Marriner
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List Price: $16.98
Our Price: $13.99
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Manufacturer: Philips
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0028943208727
Label: Philips
Manufacturer: Philips
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Philips
Release Date: 1991-04-05
Studio: Philips
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Editorial Reviews:
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This recording of the Süssmayr completion of Mozart's beloved Requiem remains one of the most interpretively faithful and musically satisfying versions in the catalog. Sir Neville Marriner, whose contribution to the soundtrack of the film Amadeus helped launch a worldwide Mozart revival, delivers Mozart's inspired music with a masterful command of style and substance. He's not trying to prove anything, but rather lets the music deliver its own profound and moving messages. --David Vernier
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Summary: All-Around Best Recording of the Requiem
Comment: I have heard many recordings of Mozart's Requiem and this is by far the best. On other recordings I have noticed bad choices about tempo that ruined the emotional impact of the piece, lackluster singing, playing that practically disguised the structure of the music, and horrible recording sound. I do agree with other reviewers that this recording deserves to be remastered. Among the singers, Sylvia McNair in particular stands out. Sir Neville Marriner and the Academy and Chorus of St. Martin in the Fields do Mozart's music complete justice. There never has been, nor ever will be, music composed that can more profoundly affect the soul than the Requiem. The music stands on its own outside of any context. I would suggest listening to Mozart's "Ave verum corpus" as a companion piece. A recording of it by Marriner and the Academy accompanies the Mass in C minor on the CD on the following link. Mozart - Mass in C minor / Te Kanawa · von Otter · Rolfe Johnson · R. Lloyd · Marriner
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Summary: From the heart
Comment: So much emotion! Mozart's Requiem deals with death, the most human of all experience. The most heavy, the most painfull, and in this case, the most beautiful. It's about dying, it's about hell, and it is about redemption. You can feel the sorrow and the finallity of it all when you listen to this. A masterpiece among masterpieces.
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Summary: Mozart's Best Done Well
Comment: I'm not what you call an average listener of classical music. I listen to a lot of music that does not fall into this category. Mozart was famous for his chamber music and he excelled at that. This is NOT his chamber music. The music is tormented, dark and haunting. This is what you'd expect music to sound like if it was composed from your deathbed. Full of emotion, power, sorrow, and every other emotion from the spectrum, You feel what Mozart felt when he composed this. The range of music he was capable of is nothing short of incredible. "Lacrimosa", "Dies Irae", "Confutatis"; All excellent examples.
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Summary: Buckle up for a ride
Comment: A great representation of the original score. I know this requiem by heart, having listened to it and others several thousands of times. It is lively and most true.. Tempos are brisk, and the arrangement matches the original score better than any other, in my opinion. However, as another reviewer stated on this theme, the mixing is awful, drowning out the orchestra so much so that time one wonders if it is there. That said, it remains the best out there.
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Summary: was 5 stars in 1991. It is 2008. Philips: PLEASE REMASTER THIS GEM !
Comment: I will not add to the existing reviewers' consensus on the sublime performance. It is outrageous this recording has not been remastered to 24-bit/96kh or even to SACD or DVD-A, but is only available in the pathetic CD technology that was state of the art in 1991. This would have made a fine candidate for Philips' 50 great recordings series from a few years ago... Better late than never, please?
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