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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Requiem [1981]
 
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Requiem [1981]
DVD ~ Mozart
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  • Format: Classical, Colour, DVD-Video, PAL
  • Language English
  • Region: All Regions
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: Exempt
  • Studio: Select Music & Video Distribution
  • DVD Release Date: 28 Aug 2006
  • Run Time: 76 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  (1 customer review)
  • DVD Features:
    • Main Language: English
    • Available Audio Tracks: LPCM Stereo
    • Featuring bonus performance: J.S. Bach - Cantata 161 'Komm, du sube Todesstunde' (21 mins)
  • ASIN: B000H4VZHG
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 124,975 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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4.0 out of 5 stars A 25-Year-Old Performance on Original Instruments, 6 Nov 2006
By J Scott Morrison (Middlebury VT, USA) - See all my reviews
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This live performance of Mozart's Requiem was filmed on 1 November 1981 in the Musikverein in Vienna. As a bonus there is also a performance of Bach's Cantata 'Komm, du süsse Todesstudende', BWV 161. The forces are Nikolaus Harnoncourt conducting his Concentus Musicus Wien, the chorus of the Vienna State Opera with soloists Rachel Yakar, soprano; Ortrun Wenkel, contralto; Kurt Equiluz, tenor; and Robert Holl, bass. Wenkel and Equiluz are the soloists in the Bach.

A couple of things distinguish this film from the many others of the Requiem. First, it is performed on original instruments by one of the earliest of the HIP ensembles, and second, it is in a somewhat modified orchestration by Franz Beyer who, it is said, studied Süssmayr's orchestration in his completion of the work and found it wanting. He reportedly made the instrumentation more spare and ascetic, feeling 'Mozart would have orchestrated the work differently' than Süssmayr. I frankly don't notice that much difference (although I am not a scholar of the work) except that Harnoncourt uses block flutes and basset horns as well as period trombones, hand horns and natural trumpets expected in a group of this sort. The soloists are fine. I particularly liked the rich sound of Ortrun Wenkel's contralto. Best of all is the chorus which sounds exceptionally fine, although the sound suffers a bit from the 1981 recording technique.

Other drawbacks to this DVD are the lack of subtitles, even of the original Latin (Moza