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In the Thread: One of the Best Mozart Requiems!
Post Subject: A different live RequiemPosted by Romy the Cat on: 5/26/2008
Yesterday WGBH-FM broadcasted their own live-to-tape recording of Handel & Haydn Society’s Mozart K. 626, the Requiem. John Nelson conducted with Christine Brandes, soprano; Paula Murrihy, mezzo-soprano; Charles Reid, tenor; Alfred Walker, bass.
I heard it live a few months back and I was impressed but yesterday I heard it again and I actually liked it. It was different and it was not like Requiem. It was rather like concert-oratorio, it was theatrical, it was playful and even happy in a way, it sounded almost like a pop music. I do not think that it was the intention but it was a fresh take, not the last thing that I caught it on radio while I was doing a wedding.
I recorded it and when I got home I re-listened a few movements. Today I listened the Requiem again- the entire thing it is amazingly easy performance for listening. In addition it is live that right the way set it way apart from anything else. Even commercial live recordings, heavily edited and with fixed imperfection of the play are very much different from row live recordings….
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