Mozart: Requiem

The Levin edition of Mozart's compelling Requiem is performed in thrilling splendour by Sir Charles Mackerras and the SCO. This is Sir Charles Mackerras' first recording of the Mozart Requiem. His history in conducting Mozart is considerable—during his lifetime he was acclaimed as one of the world's greatest living Mozarteans.

This recording uses the score prepared by Harvard professor Robert Levin. Levin aims to improve on Franz Sussmayr's familiar edition by making the music closer to what Mozart might have written.

CKD211  54 minutes 46 seconds
'If you've always shared the general unease about his pupil Süssmayr's completion of Mozart's sublime Requiem, you will share my enthusiasm for its wholesale reworking by the American academic Robert ...
'If the regular arrival of new recordings is any kind of accurate guide, Robert Levin's version of Mozart's Requiem, which remained unfinished at the composer's death, is beginning to supplant the tra ...
'First criticised as long ago as 1825, Süssmayr's completion of Mozart's unfinished mass for the dead may have stood the test of time, but it remains susceptible to fluctuating fashions in scholarship ...