Mozart - Requiem KV 626 / NEW MASTERING (Ct.record.: Hermann Scherchen, Wiener Staatsoper 1953)

[@classicalmusicreference]

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) - Requiem KV 626. ***Listen to our latest mastering update (2023)*** : bit.ly/3q2Bxjq 🎧 Qobuz bit.ly/2WosE4J Apple Music apple.co/3AxBSKJ 🎧 Amazon Music amzn.to/3MnQP9J Tidal bit.ly/3f6pB7X 🎧 Deezer bit.ly/2WutdtZ Spotify spoti.fi/2TDKP5s 🎧 KZbin Music bit.ly/3MW6uil SoundCloud bit.ly/3bKIL12 🎧 Naspter, Pandora, Anghami, QQ音乐, LineMusic日本, Awa日本... *Click to activate the English subtitles for the presentation* (00:00-01:22) 00:00 Introitus: Requiem Aeternam 06:28 I. Kyrie 09:44 II. Dies Irae 11:26 III. Sequentia _ Tuba Mirum 16:21 IV. Sequentia _ Rex Tremendae 18:08 V. Sequentia _ Recordare 25:27 VI. Sequentia _ Confutatis 27:55 VII. Sequentia _ Lacrimosa 30:41 VIII. Offertorium _ Domine Jesu Christe 35:11 IX. Offertorium _ Dominehostias 39:22 X. Sanctus 40:50 XI. Benedictus 46:46 XII. Agnus Dei, Lux Aeterna Sopran : Magda László Alt : Hilde Rössl-Majdan Tenor : Petre Munteanu Bass : Richard Standen Wiener Akademie Kammerchor Wiener Staatsoper Conductor: Hermann Scherchen Recorded in 1953 New mastering in 2021 by AB for CM//RR 🔊 FOLLOW US on SPOTIFY (Profil: CMRR) : spoti.fi/3016eVr 🔊 Download CMRR's recordings in High fidelity audio (QOBUZ) : bit.ly/2M1Eop2 ❤️ If you like CM//RR content, please consider membership at our Patreon page. Thank you :) www.patreon.com/cmrr Everything was thought out so that the work would be like death itself: at once pathetic and terrifying, calm and terrible. Written for four soloists (soprano, alto, tenor and bass), a choir and a symphony orchestra, Mozart removed all the high-pitched wind instruments (flute and oboe), judged too joyful, and kept only the basset horn, ancestor of the clarinet, with a more subdued tone. Grave and solemn, the orchestra is perfectly suited to a mass for the dead, and Mozart's writing is itself sober, even austere: no brilliant effects or great virtuoso solos. The spectacular is elsewhere: the choir takes center stage and lets its power burst forth. In the Dies Irae, the moment of the Last Judgment, a formidable storm arises: the terrible calls of the choir represent sometimes the divine anger that falls on men, sometimes attempts to soften this anger, sometimes cries of terror... Everything trembles with anguish, fever and impatience. Mozart's ultimate composition touches the sublime. Bach - Musical Offering / Das Musikalische Opfer / L’Offrande Musicale (Ct.rec.: Hermann Scherchen): kzbin.info/www/bejne/hZO2ZmZ6hsibp5o Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart PLAYLIST (reference recordings): kzbin.info/www/bejne/q3azZXiNl7ahgtk

[@navghtivs]

Should be 00:00 Introitus 06:28 Kyrie, right?

[@classicalmusicreference]

@@navghtivs yes thanks :)

[@debbymartnz1130]

Too much advertising in middle

[@claudio8313]

Beautiful, majestic, sublime! For me, the times are as original as Mozart wanted them. In those times for example, an adagio was a very slow tempo, not as many conductors do now as an andante so as not to bore. This version gives a new beauty to the requiem, the real beauty from the past

[@stonefireice6058]

If Mozart wrote only this Requiem, he still would be recognized as genius composer! I got my first recording of Requiem at age 10 and couldn’t have enough of it! It terrified and captivated me, young child ( Confutatis, Lacrimosa)! I memorized the music,but couldn’t understand the words. Until much later in my life. Since then I heard this magnificent music all over the world, including Vienna. But this particular rendition is so beautiful! The best ever. Terrifying, somber, tender and divine.

[@ellenmaccarrone4936]

I agree completely that this is the most wonderful rendition of the Requiem. It's transported me to heights I've never reached and depths I didn't know existed.

[@Suedetussy]

Exactly, if he only wrote this Requiem, he would be still seen as great. I have to admit that I‘m not too much into Mozart. This is the only work by him that resonates with me.

[@HansDunkelberg1]

@@Suedetussy Perhaps Mozart is a similar case like van Gogh, suddenly achieving a breakthrough into his real, and really important, style just shortly before his death.

[@KurtGuntherRichter]

You can find Scherchen's touch and interpretation in every recording he made. One of the most underrated Maestros of the past century.

[@gerhardrohne2361]

scherchen was never "underrated" at least since the 30th he was legendary...

[@HansDunkelberg1]

@@gerhardrohne2361 Oh, he still can be underrated at least indirectly, by people who scoff at "classical music" because they only know it from bores like Abbado, Karajan, et al.

[@jorgeurzuaurzua4011]

Thanks Classical Music for this splendid remastering of Mozart Requiem in the Hermann Scherchen 1953 recording. This rendering of the Requiem is dark, profound, deeply sad. It was a Requiem that Mozart composed for his own death, that came before the work was finished. Scherchen underlined the dramatic and tragic aspects of the music, both the orchestral and choral parts are in the shadows of Death.

[@notaire2]

Wunderschöne und spannende Interpretation dieses perfekt komponierten Requiems mit gut harmonisierten Stimmen des ausgezeichneten Chors und herrlichen Stimmen vierer genialen Solisten sowie gut vereinigten und perfekt entsprechenden Tönen aller Instrumente. Der unvergleichliche Dirigent leitet das perfekt trainiserte Orchester in verschiedenen Tempi und mit möglichst effektiver Dynamik. Der verbesserte Tonqualität ist auch ziemlich hoch als originale Aufnahme von fast siebzig Jahren vor. Wundervoll!

[@anitramklar5722]

Der bisher einzige Kommentar auf Deutsch! Das gibt mir zu denken. Offenkundig schätzt man Mozart inzwischen im Ausland mehr als im deutschsprachigen Raum. Schlimm genug!

[@siegfriedweber7956]

@@anitramklar5722 Klar doch. Die Musik Mozart´s ist prädestiniert für sensible Geister. Nicht umsonst meinte einst Wilhelm Furtwängler, dass Mozart das zerbrechlichste Genie in der Musik sei. Sein Don Giovanni aus dem Jahre 1954 mit Erna Berger, Cesare Siepi, Teresa Berganza u.a. ist der beste Beweis dafür. Und Karl Böhm versicherte glaubhaft, dass er bei Mozart keine Note kenne, hinter der sich nicht der "Mozart´sche Ernst" verberge.Diese Dualität ist neben der unbeschreiblichen kompositorischen Genialität ein Schlüssel zu diesem Phänomen!

[@Suedetussy]

@@anitramklar5722 Hätte ich anders gedeutet: da dies kein deutschsprachiger Kanal ist, posten die Leute eben auf Englisch, weil das allgemein verständlich ist.

[@peterheiman8621]

I wonder if some of the listeners who found the work too slow bothered to listen beyond the Kyrie fugue, which emphasizes the “have mercy” meaning of the text rather than turning it into a kind a Halleluyah chorus. Certainly the Lacrymosa is anything but slow, but what struck me most about that chorus was the final Amen, sung softly, with resignation, rather than with a climactic crescendo to fortissimo that one sometimes hears. Some sections are on the slow side, some fast, but never lacking in musical communication and tension. Thanks so much for this upload. By the way, I agree with the listener who also liked the old Krips recording, which I remember from my childhood. There were two ten-inch LP’s.

[@adrianball5670]

Wonderful recording of this masterpiece.

[@sonsdoparaiso5393]

O Réquiem é muito lindo: isso já foi dito e escrito "ad infinitum" desde que a obra veio ao mundo. E que esta gravação está à altura da obra é, indubitavelmente, uma verdade. Obrigado ao Classical Music/ /Reference Recording que me tem proporcionado momentos sublimes de enlevo e encantamento.

[@morkulhani]

Excellent tempi, especially on Dies Irae. Overall, a mesmerizingly beautiful rendition. A true reference recording! Thank you for uploading this masterpiece!

[@renaudpontier]

La version la plus dramatique que j'ai jamais entendue. Grandiose et magnifique.

[@classicalmusicreference]

Everything was thought out so that the work would be like death itself: at once pathetic and terrifying, calm and terrible. Written for four soloists (soprano, alto, tenor and bass), a choir and a symphony orchestra, Mozart removed all the high-pitched wind instruments (flute and oboe), judged too joyful, and kept only the basset horn, ancestor of the clarinet, with a more subdued tone. Grave and solemn, the orchestra is perfectly suited to a mass for the dead, and Mozart's writing is itself sober, even austere: no brilliant effects or great virtuoso solos. The spectacular is elsewhere: the choir takes center stage and lets its power burst forth. In the Dies Irae, the moment of the Last Judgment, a formidable storm arises: the terrible calls of the choir represent sometimes the divine anger that falls on men, sometimes attempts to soften this anger, sometimes cries of terror... Everything trembles with anguish, fever and impatience. Mozart's ultimate composition touches the sublime. 🔊 FOLLOW US on SPOTIFY (Profil: CMRR) : spoti.fi/3016eVr 🔊 Download CMRR's recordings in High fidelity audio (QOBUZ) : bit.ly/2M1Eop2 ❤️ If you like CM//RR content, please consider membership at our Patreon page. Thank you :) www.patreon.com/cmrr

[@b.murenthaler]

This Recording i didn't yet know ,seems great as many 70 year old recordings ! ⭐⭐⭐

[@joser.galindo451]

Beautiful tempo. Love it.

[@aporeticphilosophy8048]

I really liked the Bohm recordings that were released so this is very exciting :)

[@mariainesandradealcantara9979]

MOZART é tão genial do começo ao fim,que seu réquiem é o mais bonito da história da música! !!!!!!!!💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖

[@anitramklar5722]

Eine außergewöhnlich gute Interpretation! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@romearomeo]

Musica Divina

[@samitobribiesca6320]

SUPERBE , CHEF -D'ŒUVRE ÉPOUSTOUFLANT SANS -PAROLES , MERCI !

[@testcubico9784]

Super excited!!!!!

[@Ray-tk7ei]

Beyond words

[@kalrug5023]

Love it

[@annasandqvist5563]

This Is Like An Angel Voice ! Just Totaly Love It. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@HansDunkelberg1]

Do you know their voices well?

[@annasandqvist5563]

Yes, I’m a choir singer as 1 Soprano and have been singing in 11 choirs and a singing pedagog for 8 years this kind of music. I sing now in my 12 choir Joyvoice . Have been on stage before with most of my choirs as well.

[@HansDunkelberg1]

@@annasandqvist5563 So you mean young, innocent singers in your choirs, by "angels", is that correct?

[@schrysafis]

@@HansDunkelberg1 I think she meant the melodies are godly and outworldly. Nobody can understand how one human could ever compose something like this.

[@dejanstevanic5408]

Interesting. Thank you.

[@peterjohnson617]

This being my favorite piece of music I have listened to it an uncountable numbers of times..... these people here do as good a job with this as any I`ve ever heard,& it was made just 2 years after I was born Thank you so much for putting it here for me to hear.

[@graziettacarcetta2498]

OUTSTANDING 👏🏆❤️🇮🇹

[@HansDunkelberg1]

Why the Italian flag? Wouldn't one of the Vatican fit better, given that we are listening to a text in Latin?

[@graziettacarcetta2498]

@@HansDunkelberg1 only because I am italian, but every flag fits perfect to MOZART 😍🥇

[@anitramklar5722]

Das Agnus Dei ist unübertroffen! Genial!

[@margaritafoncueva8338]

Conmovedor, maravillosa version! Magico Mozart! .Gracias. por tanta belleza.!

[@anitramklar5722]

iDe verdad! Que pena, que en Austria y Alemania hay poca gente, que admiran esta musica. 🤢

[@beto1515]

@@anitramklar5722 queeee En serio?????

[@anitramklar5722]

@@beto1515 De verdad. 😰

[@beto1515]

@@anitramklar5722 y pensar que alli están las mejores orquestas y coros aparte es cuna de los mejores compositores la música clásica y barroco.... Increíble de verdad que sí es para ponerse a llorar qué le está pasando a las nuevas generaciones en qué van a parar

[@anitramklar5722]

@@beto1515 Nuestro pais ha cambiado bastante. La gente se interesa ein otras cosas. Ademas los politicos tratan de destruir nuestra cultura. Y la mayoria lo acepta. 😰

[@lalawmpuiatlau3702]

Relaxing

[@michaelhernandez8309]

Best so far

[@elisabetalungu6065]

This music is from Heaven!

[@HansDunkelberg1]

That could indeed be, especially given that Mozart has composed it in a bad state of his health, shortly before his death.

[@中島百合子-g6o]

I know the story of mozart requiem.but I've never heard this song. thanks for upload.

[@HansDunkelberg1]

Do you mean "sung"?

[@中島百合子-g6o]

@@HansDunkelberg1 sing sang sung🤔 Sung means singsong,right? I don’t know that. Thank you for telling me, song =sung I use that.

[@HansDunkelberg1]

@@中島百合子-g6o "Sing", "sang", "sung" is fine, "sung" meaning that something has been, or is currently, (being) sung. But of course, you also can call the entire Requiem a "song", which would mean just a little bit an unconventional notion.

[@GabrielPadecopeo]

ESTA ES UNA DE LAS MEJORES VERSIONES DEL REQUIEM

[@HansDunkelberg1]

Versions? Are there various ones?

[@beto1515]

@@HansDunkelberg1 yes sir ......a lot of them but this is ones of the best!!!!

[@eloygon2705]

Sublime

[@ultramet]

One day someone will give the Levin completion this same magnificent interpretation. Then homeostasis will be achieved.

[@ocayaro]

Requiem in D Minor, K 626, requiem mass by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, left incomplete at his death on December 5, 1791. Until the late 20th century the work was most often heard as it had been completed by Mozart's student Franz Xaver Süssmayr. (Source: Britannica)

[@matteovasta5952]

Superba musica e magnifica interpretazione. A Rigore non credo che Mozart riuscisse a “ sentirla” così! Scherchen non ha affinità con altri. È “ particolare “. Fuori confronti.

[@MassimoMalavasi]

Bravi!!!

[@peacemaker7645]

💜💙💚💛🧡 GOD 🧡💛💚💙💜

[@eugeniohuerta8290]

Por todos los fieles difuntos gracias 😊👋🎈🌹 BIELIS 🌹💐💐🌹

[@kimhyunjoo67]

thanks a lot!!!

¡Hermoso, majestuoso, sublime! Para mí, los tiempos son tan originales como los quería Mozart.😍

[@blackpowerdiva4958]

Hmm. I don’t know; Some great and or interesting moments for sure. Wow. But the Lacrymosa…. All bets are off on THAT. That was the Worst. (Except the whispered “amen” was interesting. But definitely an interesting recording that I was not aware of. Thanks for this fantastic sound quality.

[@Felipe.Taboada.]

The best one in my opinion.

[@bunnyfujii]

I really appreciate this up-loading! I like this version, but above all the angel figure, which perfectly embodies the content of the music. Could you tell me, where this angel statue stands?

[@HansDunkelberg1]

I cannot, I just can tell you there stands a comma too much after your "Can you tell me".

[@bunnyfujii]

@@HansDunkelberg1 　Thank you for your help! My major is german literature. I'm accustomed too much to the german way of writing. I wish I could write a better englich the next time!

[@HansDunkelberg1]

@@bunnyfujii You're a kind person, replying thankfully when helped. Others would have called me a "grammar nazi". Switching from German to English anyway is a good idea. German is only spoken by 80 million people, now, English still by half the world. English apparently becomes a reincarnation of the Latin of antiquity, with North America as its core area of emanation so that a geometric parallel comes along to the emanation of Latin from the Italian boot in the Roman days. Latin has remained crucial for the Christian church, for politics, and for sciences until the 20th century. I, myself, as a reincarnated German author currently am beginning to write in English. German begins to sound like, and also to be treated as, a dead language. A representative of German literature with a vivid relation to antique-like works of art like that statue is Goethe, who during his journey through Italy has dived into the sphere deeply. Gerhart Hauptmann has continued in his tradition, donating to mankind beauties like his Die Blaue Blume, in a corresponding style. This might not be known to a person with a major in German literature, today, while I won't have to point you to the relevance of Gryphius. If you are interested in such baroque sculpture and its background, you'll certainly always be furthered by focusing on the way in which the style is aimed at evoking a sense of a time-lapse back into the Roman empire. A man who has _painted_ accordingly has been Watteau.

[@bunnyfujii]

@@HansDunkelberg1 Mr Hans Dunkelberg , thank you again for your informations! I love poetry ,above all Rilke and Mallarmé(my minor is french literature). And my best friend was a german(may he rest in peace!), I still have many friends there. I once have learnd English hard, but for learning German, French, Latin, Greek and so forth, I forgot many things. Thank you again!

[@HansDunkelberg1]

@@bunnyfujii I'm just planning to load a recitation of a French poem up to KZbin. I find France pretty dry, by now, but its language is fun. I can read it, and if you have a corresponding aim - like publishing such a creation - the effort can appear as worthwhile. I've planned googling French poems. Now that you mention Mallarmé this hint will, perhaps, already suffice. I have to deduce that you do not live in the USA, Canada, Britain, Australia, Germany, or France. Your name points me to Japan, your zeal to East or Southeast Asia. When I was a child around 1980, I in my native German city of Muelheim an der Ruhr often saw huge zeppelins (more exactly, blimps) built nearby flying along the northern horizon that were adorned with the letters FUJI. Today, I'm infatuated with East Asia ever more, eagerly learning Chinese and hoping to move to China, one day, because I, for my part, although being born in the country, do not have many friends in Germany, any more (I'm currently living in Austria). Mount Fuji to me by now embodies a sort of a strange mixture of a sophisticated culture and of a dead, barren, downright unearthly cosmos in the very northeast of a region which otherwise is dominated by lushness. This lushness looks like possessing a heavyweight of culture in China, certain outposts resembling Japan's combination of culture and of loneliness on Java, and apart from that, a huge paradise of exotic jungles, exotic peoples, and exotic habits, in the area of the Philippines and of Indonesia. If someone who's at home in such a multifarious part of Earth learns Greek, Latin, French, English, and German, that must appear as quite striking. Such a person must know exactly what he or she is doing. After all, while the written tradition of Japan does not seem to reach back by 2,000 years the one of China absolutely does reach back even much farther. Even the characters of China's writing system continuously go back into the beginning of the 2nd millennium BCE, while the Greek and Latin rather suddenly emerge only later - based on the ones of the Phoenicians - around 1000 BCE and in the 7th century. And it's not only the writing. No, for example the Forest of Confucius in Qufu (Shandong) has - although it is a cemetery - kept alive old East Asia fairly much, from the days of the ancient Greeks until the present. When Greek amphitheaters, like the one of Epidaurus, now are again used for performances, that is but an artificial revival you cannot compare to such a continuity. One reason to develop an interest in the European antiquity if one lives close to such a place with its culture consistently spreading roots into the past might also be that you have a certain delay in the transition of East Asia from the level of the technology of the ancient Greeks, Romans, and Han-Chinese to the current one, as compared with Europe - not so much in Japan, but after all, decidedly in China, which still into the 1980s has used ships clearly reminiscent of the ones you can see in illustrations from old Egypt, Crete, and Greece. I, who only once have left Europe's area of modern technology on a trip into Mexico, use to have problems to grasp that ancient Rome has at all really existed, and I fear this will be typical also of other Europeans. Not even Pompeii and many Christian churches from the era c. of the 4th century CE which still are in use do help me, in such a respect. All of that, including the currently held ceremonies, to me appears but like (in) a museum. For us, here, already Mozart appears like a figure from a fairy-tale world nobody will take seriously, any more. That's a major hurdle for the European who tries to enjoy what here, tellingly, is distinguished from generally popular acoustics as "classical music".

[@Elizabeth18224]

❤️

[@antoniopinto43]

Uma obra-prima. Até na morte, foi genial. Mozart é imortal.

[@HansDunkelberg1]

_Really?_

[@manuelluis2424]

Es una obra maestra!

[@bunnyfujii]

Weiss jemand bescheid, wo diese Engelfigur herkommt und wo sie steht? Sie verkörpert nämlich, so scheint es mir, die Musik selbst!　Eine sehr schöne Interpretation! Nicht zuletzt danke ich herzlich für den Upload!

[@letsschubertiad1966]

0:11:34 0:26:54 0:32:49 0:45:22 0:48:21 0:51:43

[@terrycreagh4103]

Oh, the pathos!

[@HansDunkelberg1]

Yah, that's not easy to achieve without getting hollow - and here, there quite obviously does not occur any instance of such a failure.

[@joseosiasdasilvafilho9034]

Sem palavras diante de tanta beleza, Simplesmente lindo. Mozart em sua forma mais bela.

[@arteguey]

Quite superior, much better than "modern authentic rushed" versions lacking the spiritual insight of this music. Thanks por posting this outstanding interpretation...

[@pyrettablaze86]

Slower than my grandma driving in the dark while it's raining lol I can't

[@romanhugodiazg.1281]

At least! I can heart the counterpoint in its whole glory!

[@LyleFrancisDelp]

This must be the absolute slowest Mozart Requiem ever put to disc.

[@voceanima3008]

The four soloists and the choir are excellent, but Scherchen's conducting is not only absurdly slow, but also heavy - "Teutonic" in the worst and most derogatory sense of the word. Joe Fallisi

[@damonturnbull5903]

What's the timing then?

[@LyleFrancisDelp]

@@damonturnbull5903 Fire up your stopwatch. Or better yet….your hourglass.

[@damonturnbull5903]

@@LyleFrancisDelp Sorry. That didnt answer my Question. What ids the timing of this and what is it "supposed" to be?

[@LyleFrancisDelp]

@@damonturnbull5903 Sorry, but you’re asking for an objective answer to a subjective question. What is it “supposed” to be? There is no answer to that question, as it’s a matter of interpretation, but one can easily say that comparative to other recordings, this is easily the slowest I’ve ever heard. Quite simply, it just plods along without any forward momentum at all.

[@saqerabukhaled8047]

God

[@garrychang3022]

👍👏👏👍👏👏

[@realtd8360]

D you know the statue name?

[@ТатьянаБугрова-ь9ш]

💔💔🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀

[@emiliovergara5919]

Esta versión presenta aspectos de la obra que otros omiten...por lo pronto muy superior a la famosa de Carlo María Guilini y comparable sola a la de Böhm

[@carlnuernberg3273]

This same Mozart came up with “die Zauberflöte, Don Giovanni, Così fan Tutte...”? Ach Du lieber...

[@stonefireice6058]

But with just this music he would be immortalized !

[@matteovasta5952]

Concordo. Mozart è unico. A mio gusto il Flauto Magico è superbo e in esso Mozart ha raggiunto l’apice della musica.

[@HansDunkelberg1]

Good observation! That's quite a contrast. I'm wondering if the man after a reincarnation has even been responsible for the creations of Schoenberg.

[@proofnewtestamentistrue2948]

!!!!

[@anitramklar5722]

Die Werbung ist 💩❗️

[@beto1515]

Mozart copied this Requiem from his beloved teacher Haydn it sounds very similar!!!!😳

[@Mivieiraaaa]

❤️