Mozart Requiem recommendations?

[bazelio]

Hi all,

I'm looking for recommendations for Mozart's Requiem. A specific vinyl pressing. Looking for a great performance, and high audio quality.

I have this one, and while it's generally nice, I'd say it's not as dynamic as I think it should be. This really needs to pop.

 

[zerostargeneral]

 

[Tango]

Exciting music. Thanks for intruducing.

 

[kodomo]

I see digital recommendation so I will also suggest a digital version you may enjoy. Mackerras with Scottish Chamber Orchestra. You can find it on sacd as well.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Susan Gritton, Catherine Wyn-Rogers, Timothy Robinson, Peter Rose, SCO Chorus, Sir Charles Mackerras - Requiem - Adagio & Fugue

Explore songs, recommendations, and other album details for Requiem - Adagio & Fugue by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Susan Gritton, Catherine Wyn-Rogers, Timothy Robinson, Peter Rose, SCO Chorus, Sir Charles Mackerras. Compare different versions and buy them all on Discogs.

www.discogs.com

 

[tima]

Propius 7815 on vinyl.

Dear @zerostargeneral - do you have other suggestions? Barenboim on HMV, Marriner on Argo, Schrier on Philps, Muti on HMV ... or ? TIA

 

[dcc]

I would recommend two versions that are very different from each other: a classical interpretation and a more radical one: the first is from Colin Davis and the more recent one from Teodor Currentzis. The latter is a limited edition double 45 RPM from Alpha. There are still a few available.

 

[the sound of Tao]

For performance it does seem hard to find a definitive Mozart Requiem... Marriner, Solti, Celibidache (perhaps too slow), Karajan, Mehta, Bohm, Giulini, Mackerras, all varying kinds of beautiful, haunting, grand, but the one that is stark and intense and on the doorway to the edge of life and death could be the Bruno Walter... intense and stripped bare of sentimentality and at times just with gravitas and an approaching fierceness...

 

[bazelio]

For performance it does seem hard to find a definitive Mozart Requiem... Marriner, Solti, Celibidache (perhaps too slow), Karajan, Mehta, Bohm, Giulini, Mackerras, all varying kinds of beautiful, haunting, grand, but the one that is stark and intense and on the doorway to the edge of life and death could be the Bruno Walter... intense and stripped bare of sentimentality and at times just with gravitas and an approaching fierceness...

@zerostargeneral thank you, I'll look closer at that as I'd never seen it before.

@the sound of Tao - the Marriner sounds too hyper to me. I like the Solti but haven't found a great sounding LP. My Bohm pressing has great clarity but sounds dynamically restricted.

 

[bazelio]

I would recommend two versions that are very different from each other: a classical interpretation and a more radical one: the first is from Colin Davis and the more recent one from Teodor Currentzis. The latter is a limited edition double 45 RPM from Alpha. There are still a few available.

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Is your Colin Davis SAL3649? Just a few minutes on YouTube, and I'm loving this one.

 

[Gregm]

Hi, I second the Currentzis / MusicAeterna as a contemporary interpretation on Alpha.
For dynamcis and good recording there is also the Karajan /BPO 1961 recording on DGG.

I agree that a definitive Requiem is a bit like Bach's Mass in B minor for me: it takes 3-4 different ones to make a "definitive collage"

 

[dcc]

Is your Colin Davis SAL3649? Just a few minutes on YouTube, and I'm loving this one.

SAL 3649 is indeed the UK pressing whereas mine 802 862 LY which is the German pressing.

 

[Tango]

 

[howiebrou]

I always enjoy the more intimate Dunedin Consort version

Mozart – Requiem – Dunedin Consort

www.dunedin-consort.org.uk

 

[howiebrou]

Another one I like.

 

[bazelio]

I've got PROP 7815 and SAL3649 on the way. This should be fun. Thank you.

 

[miniguy]

Hi all,

I'm looking for recommendations for Mozart's Requiem. A specific vinyl pressing. Looking for a great performance, and high audio quality.

I have this one, and while it's generally nice, I'd say it's not as dynamic as I think it should be. This really needs to

Hi all,

I'm looking for recommendations for Mozart's Requiem. A specific vinyl pressing. Looking for a great performance, and high audio quality.

I have this one, and while it's generally nice, I'd say it's not as dynamic as I think it should be. This really needs to pop.

One of my favorites

 

[howiebrou]

Gotta love the internet. I'm now getting Mozart Requiem recommendations in my email inbox from Amazon....

 

[bazelio]

Gotta love the internet. I'm now getting Mozart Requiem recommendations in my email inbox from Amazon....

How do they compare to the recommendations in this thread?

 

[howiebrou]

How do they compare to the recommendations in this thread?

 

[iaxel]

Although digital (available as SACD as well) I like Harnoncourt's interpretation: