Adam Banaszak, Krzysztof Kusiel-Moroz, Warsaw Chamber Opera Choir and Orchestra, Dorota Szczepanska
Description
Mozart's Requiem has nothing to do with superficiality, it is all depth - this performance perfectly conveys it.
This is one of these classical pieces that almost everyone recognises on the spot. Even Fryderyk Chopin himself was delighted with the Requiem to such an extent that he ordered for it to be performed during his funeral Mass in the Parisian Church of La Madeleine. Thousands of pages have been written about the Requiem. About the mysterious commission, about the body of a young man exhausted by work and life.
From the memoirs of Benedikt Schack, a friend of the Mozart family, we learn that in December 1791 a sung rehearsal of fragments of the work was held. Apparently, after listening to the first bars of the Lacrimosa, Mozart burst into tears and put down the score. Eleven hours later, around one o'clock in the morning, he died.
Tracklisting
Bartosz Glowacki
Karol Rathaus Ensemble
Igor Cecocho & Piotr Rojek
Gliere String Quartet
Camerata Vistula String Quartet
Barbara Borowicz & Marek Szlezer
Adam Banaszak, Krzysztof Kusiel-Moroz, Warsaw Chamber Opera Choir and Orchestra, Dorota Szczepanska
Marzanna Rudnicka; Kamil Wrona
Gli Angeli Geneve, Stephan MacLeod
Florian Helgath, Choir Zurcher Sing-Akademia
The Chapel Choir Of University College, Durham; Barney Howard
Stefano Albarello
Simona Saturova; Marek Kozak
Roderick Williams; Sacconi Quartet; William Vann
Petter Udland Johansen; Christian Gutfleisch
Paula Downes; Alison Daniels; Jonathan Midgley; Choir of Robinson College Cambridge; David Trippett
