Mozart: Requiem – Introitus | SO & GC | CM Berlin

Symphony Orchestra & Grand Choir of the Collegium Musicum Berlin
Conductor: Donka Miteva
Soprano: Uta Krause

Wolfgang A. Mozart: Requiem – Introitus
Recorded on July 1, 2022 at Berlin Philharmonic, Germany

It is impossible to imagine what Mozart would have invented, or perhaps had already invented. Nevertheless, the new addition was about the thought experiment of deducing the extent and nature of Mozart's instructions from everything that exists in someone else's hand. In this way, it is possible to derive - only incompletely, hypothetically, of course - instructions for completing the Requiem as a "whole", based on Mozart's presumed intentions in the form of general procedures, melodic material, contrapuntal constellations, harmonic progressions, instrumental accompaniments, concrete borrowings from older works by Mozart or Handel and Bach, and so on. Once I had uncovered this "composing backwards", I tried to compose the Requiem forwards again, starting from the music Mozart had written up to his death and the influences he bundled in the Requiem. _~ Michael Ostrzyga_

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_Under the roof of Collegium Musicum Berlin, some 450 students and staff of Freie Universität and Technische Universität are gathered to follow their shared passion for music. With most of the musicians having no professional education in music, our two orchestras, two choirs and one big band take great pride in their high level of achievement._
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[LucienMarine]

I like to feel the emotional purity of the classical music. In each instrument is joined the ideal of the musical beauty and the spirit of creativity in the present instant. It's a beautiful harmony when the doing and the saying go it together. Music gives meaning to sound, from meaning to sound, is born emotion. *Lucien*

[atrotossavainen]

Great performance and excellent recording. Very much looking forward to hearing the whole series!

[analuizagatti]

a música clássica é uma das minhas músicas favoritas, eu adoro o ritmo e a complexidade das músicas clássica, simplesmente amei o vídeo ❤

[LovingMozart-esps]

Un interpretación muy suave, aligerada, bastante atípica. Los coros pastosos son una delicia.

[cuitlahuacrivas]

A famous concert by Pieter Jan Leusink in 2015 at the Concertgebow in Amsterdam has the same tempo.

[Jose]

Es una versión? Nunca la he escuchado así.

[iust.I]

Shocking choice of tempo. If a coach in sports screwed up so badly he would be sacked in the morning. This is insulting to the great work itself.

[theophilos]

This is the only virtually compete movement fully orchestrated by M. himself in his Requiem Mass K. 626 (compos’d between c. Sept-Dec 1791) which has a tempo marking in his own hand (Codex 1756.1a in the Wiener Hofbibliothek) as ‘Adagio’ whereas this conductoress has scrap’d & scrambl’d through it and rushing the performers too fast (as if fleeing a burning building) nearly 25% too fast according to M.’s specific tempo markings — to correct this gross insult to the memory of this great composer YT listeners would have to tap the spok’d wheel icon in the upper right hand corner of their screens & adjust the playing speed down to 75% — only then can the audience appreciate the depth of emotion this unfinish’d masterpiece actually contains…

[TheDreamer]

Forse un po' troppo veloce, il che fa perdere intensità e pathos