23 Jun
2011
23 Jun
'11
12:22 a.m.
On 06/22/2011 11:50 PM, Fons Adriaensen wrote:
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 11:32:29PM +0200, Robin Gareus
wrote:
> On 06/22/2011 11:08 PM, Fons Adriaensen wrote:
>> On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 09:52:15PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>>
>>> I can recommend Mozart's Requiem (Philips Classic Productions 1991.
>>> Note! I hate Mozart too, but I love this recording. The Academy of St.
>>> Martin in the Fields and Sir Neville Marriner are geniuses.)
>>
>> Beh...
>>
>> For Mozart's Requiem there's nothing coming close to the
>> version by Philippe Herreweghe, Collegium Vocale and La
>> Chapelle Royale, Harmonia Mundi, 1997.
>
> La Petite Bande, Sigiswald Kuijken - a belgium barok orchestra - did an
> amazing interpretation of it as well. It's fast but to too rushed.
dang. I meant fast but _not_ rushed.
Yes... The Kuijken brothers, Erik Van Nevel, Philippe
Herreweghe, ...
the Belgians have done well in this area.
I *hate* Mozart's Requiem performed too slowly... and Kuijkens
version certainly isn't too fast.
IMHO it is just right.
Tuba mirum spargens sonum...
Ciao,