Various - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Requiem

Mozart�s Requiem may have been written under strange circumstances in the final months of the composer�s life, but the work itself it is timeless. Mariss Jansons and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and Chorus give a powerful and poignant performance of Mozart�s masterpiece with an impressive group of solo singers, in a concert recorded live in Munich in May 2017. Even its composer�s death could not halt the success of Mozart�s Requiem. Although left incomplete on his death in December 1791, having been anonymously commissioned, the Requiem was completed by a pupil of Mozart�s, Franz Xaver S�ssmayr. By the time it was premiered in 1793, it was already a famous work, shrouded in mystery. But even more mysterious than the story behind it is the magisterial quality of Mozart�s writing, from the ferocity of the Dies irae to the otherworldly grace of the Lacrimosa. Genia K�hmeier, Elisabeth Kulman, Mark Padmore and Adam Plachetka are the world-class soloists joining Jansons and his orchestra and chorus. Padmore was Artist in Residence with the orchestra for the 2016/17 season and his rapport with the orchestra is evident. His ringing, distinctive tenor voice is well matched, too, to Jansons�s eloquent and subtle interpretation. �For him it is not about rhetoric, but more about transcendence�, wrote S�ddeutsche Zeitung of Jansons�s conducting � suggesting a transcendent faith in humanity, even in the face of death.