This 2020 release is a reissue of the 2010 recording of the Mozart Requiem in D minor, K. 626. The Alpha label on which both recordings appear has been acquired in the interim by larger entities, which presumably wanted to take advantage of the fact that conductor Teodor Currentzis -- in 2010, one of classical music's bad boys -- emerged as a consistent seller. This remains one of Currentzis' most radical recordings and one that will certainly shake up the listener feeling in a rut with the Mozart Requiem. Start with the ...
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This 2020 release is a reissue of the 2010 recording of the Mozart Requiem in D minor, K. 626. The Alpha label on which both recordings appear has been acquired in the interim by larger entities, which presumably wanted to take advantage of the fact that conductor Teodor Currentzis -- in 2010, one of classical music's bad boys -- emerged as a consistent seller. This remains one of Currentzis' most radical recordings and one that will certainly shake up the listener feeling in a rut with the Mozart Requiem. Start with the sudden fortissimos, underway early in the Introit and demanded from the fine soloists and the New Siberian Singers choir as well as Currentzis' timpani in his MusicAeterna orchestra, here still denoted the Chamber Orchestra of the Novosibirsk Opera. Stay for the historically informed playing from the orchestra, with Currentzis cultivating a raw string tone to match the highly dramatic treatment of the music. It's not all blood and guts, though: Currentzis makes room for Mozart's...
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