Performed by John Lubbock and the Orchestra of St. John's, this live rendition of the Requiem in D minor by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is a reading of the Bärenreiter edition, supervised by H.C. Robbins Landon. In a time when authentic period instrumentation and historically informed practices have influenced many recordings of the Requiem, including several speculative revisions, choosing this fairly conservative version seems unnecessarily safe. To many listeners, it will seem barely indistinguishable from the standard ...
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Performed by John Lubbock and the Orchestra of St. John's, this live rendition of the Requiem in D minor by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is a reading of the Bärenreiter edition, supervised by H.C. Robbins Landon. In a time when authentic period instrumentation and historically informed practices have influenced many recordings of the Requiem, including several speculative revisions, choosing this fairly conservative version seems unnecessarily safe. To many listeners, it will seem barely indistinguishable from the standard completion by Franz Xaver Süssmayr, except for additional brass parts from the Breitkopf & Härtel edition, and the music is all familiar, with only minimal changes. Putting aside some problems with the close-up recording that exposes weaknesses in the OSJ's playing and unevenness in the choir's blend, the biggest difficulty is the general lack of period style. In a performance that is purported to be what Mozart's contemporaries would have first known of the Requiem, it sounds remarkably...
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