Requiem K626

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Composer : Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Conductor : Georg Solti
Performer : Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Performer : Arleen Auger
Performer : Cecilia Bartoli
Performer : Vinson Cole
Performer : Rene Pape

Product Details

Binding : Audio CD
EAN : 0028943368827
Label : Universal Music Group
Number of Discs : 1
Product Group : Music
Release Date : 1992-03-27
Running Time : 57minutes
UPC : 028943368827

ASIN : B0000041ZS

Track Listings for

Disc-1
1. Introitus
2. Kyrie
3. Sequenz: Dies irae
4. Sequenz: Tuba mirum
5. Sequenz: Rex tremendae
6. Sequenz: Recordare
7. Sequenz: Confutatis
8. Sequenz: Lacrimosa
9. Offertorium: Domine Jesu
10. Offertorium: Hostias
11. Offertorium: Prayer Over The Gifts
12. Offertorium: Preface
13. Sanctus
14. Bendictus
15. Canon
16. Pater noster--Ecce Agnus
17. Agnus Dei
18. Communio

Customer Reviews

sublime (2003-08-28)

I love this recording because the soloists really shine and the tempo is always just right.

Consumer warning (2003-07-24)

The music is fabulous...when there is music. Someone decided to leave in place the actual mass, celebrated during this live performance. BAD call. 5 minutes of priestly intonations is FAR more than my patience can abide, and since these verbal pauses occur 5 times during the performance, having to forward thru them is too big a nuisance.

Best Mozart Requiem recording available (2003-04-24)

What an event this is. Solti is in top form here conducting the Vienna Philharmonic in a very powerful and fiery performance of this most famous of requiems. While some conductors take the Kyrie pretty slow, Solti kicks it in high gear and keeps it moving. The soloists are all magnificent especially Cole and Pape. The Dies Irae and the Confutatis are more powerful here than I have ever heard them before. The chorus is very fine and sings with power and a lovely round sound. The Lacrymosa and Domine Jesu are incredibly beautiful. This is probably the 2nd best Mass recording ever, right behind Barenboim's Verdi Requiem recording. Get them both and be prepared to be moved in a way you never thought possible.

A great event (2001-11-20)

I have loved Mozart's Requiem for years, and am a huge Mozart fan. This CD combined many things I love: Solti's conducting, Bartoli's voice and a setting/orchestra that is phenomenal. I found this recording of the 626 better than almost any other I have in my collection. The different parts were performed beautifully, and the expression injected into the piece was overpowering (in a good way). I could almost feel the anguish of Mozart as he lay dying, but trying to get this last piece of music out.

I would highly recommend this CD to anyone.

The anniversary Requiem (2001-06-25)

These days I've found and bought a copy of the 1991 Vienna live Requiem, conducted by Georg Solti and recorded to commemorate 200 years from the death of Mozart and the outing of the piece itself. A few remarks: it's live, recorded in a cathedral, and the music parts are sung in a real Requiem mass, with priests doing their part after the Hostias and Benedictus sections. It gives you a feeling to be right there, at a real funeral or commemoration of the man who passed away. The cast is impressive: the Vienna Philarmonic (very good throughout and especially in the Lacrymosa section), conducted by Georg Solti, who choosed quick tempos in certain points, a choice which underlines someway the emotion and hurry in which Mozart actually wrote the piece. Even if in some places we'd prefer him to slow it down (e.g. the trombone solemn intro to the Tuba Mirum section), but the performance is very good overall. Highlights for Solti: the Introitus with its slow tragic orchestral intro, the Lacrymosa and the final Communio, not so well caught some moments in the Recordare Jesu Pie section, where the quick tempos played him a little trick :) The chorus is the Vienna State Opera Choir, and they give a splendid performance, very good all over with no weak point. Especially the first three sections are sung wonderful by them. The 4 soloists: Arlene Auger (soprano), Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo), Vinson Cole (tenor) and Rene Pape (bass) ... they have each their moment to shine. Bartoli is simply wonderful in the Introitus and Benedictus, Auger in the Domine Jesu, Cole has his shining point in the Tuba Mirum, and the bass, although hurried up by the conductor, shows good voice and feeling in the Tuba Mirum introduction. And when it comes to sing together, they complement each other in good fashion, more notably in the Benedictus (obviously my favourite section). Overall a good CD and marks a special moment, in the Stephankirche in Vienna in december 1991, a Requiem for the one and only Mozart :) It's not a CD to play in the background. When you put it you must pay attention :) and there are the latin prayers spoken which create again the solemn atmosphere and all finishes with the dark bells sound... mass is over, Rest in peace Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, thank you for all you've done!

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