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Music, opera and film.(Film)(Critical Essay)
A FEW WEEKS AGO I attended one of those postmodernist concerts, where Mozart's Requiem was interwoven with modern pieces by the likes of John Tavener on similar themes. The rationale was supposedly explained in an elaborate program note intended to be read carefully by the audience prior to the concert co much so, that by the time my companion and I arrived they were all sold out. Minus the "explanation" we were both simply exasperated, as some fine contemporary music was devastated by the Mozart. It reminded me of a line from the Warner Brothers melodrama Deception. When Claude Rains' imperious composer is asked by his protege/lover (Bette Davis) why he has skipped the ...
- Mozart: Requiem.(Sound Recording Review)
- Magazine article from: Sensible Sound January 1, 2005 700+ words
Mozart: Requiem. Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Concentus...length about how there is no actual "Mozart Requiem" and it should never be called such...times over. But the CD is labeled "Mozart: Requiem." Go figure. Interestingly, too...
- Mozart: Requiem with Sussmayr: Requiem.
- Magazine article from: American Record Guide Althouse November 1, 2005 700+ words
MOZART: Requiem with SUSSMAYR: Requiem Maria Jette, Jennifer Larmore, James Taylor...Runnicles--Telarc 80636--47 minutes It is hard to justify yet another Mozart Requiem, particularly with a collegiate choir and soloists who, though very...
- Mozart: Requiem. Karita Mattila, Rachel Harnisch, Sara Mingardo, Michael...
- Magazine article from: Sensible Sound Puccio, John April 1, 2000 700+ words
Mozart: Requiem. Karita Mattila, Rachel Harnisch, Sara Mingardo, Michael Schade...disc on, it had been years since I last remembered listening to the Mozart Requiem played by anything but a period-instruments band or a chamber group...
- MOZART: Requiem; Betracht dies Herz; Laudate Dominum.
- Magazine article from: American Record Guide GREENFIELD, PHILIP March 1, 2000 700+ words
...minutes What do I want out of a Mozart Requiem? Whatever the version, whatever...grandeur at 'Rex tremendae' just as Mozart obviously did. 'Recordare...appropriate to honor Herr Karajan with a Mozart Requiem, you're better off sticking...
- Mozart: Requiem. (Guide to Records).
- Magazine article from: American Record Guide Kilpatrick, Barry May 1, 2003 700+ words
...others. And they had a sketch, in Mozart's hand, of an Amen fugue that...score. Accounts of the various Mozart Requiem revisions have been roundly criticized...is probably farther removed from Mozart" (Nov/Dec 2002:72). I am...
- Mozart: Requiem.(Opera Review)
- Magazine article from: Opera News Braun, William R. October 1, 2004 700+ words
MOZART: Requiem Schafer, Fink; Streit, Finley; Arnold Schoenberg Choir, Concentus...iconoclastic, historically informed interpretations, he has now recorded a Mozart Requiem that could fairly be called a basic library recommendation. Harnoncourt...
- Mozart: REQUIEM.(Review)
- Magazine article from: Opera News BERNHEIMER, MARTIN October 1, 2001 700+ words
Mozart: REQUIEM [] Jurinac, West; Loeffler, Guthrie...her lyrical best when she recorded the Mozart Requiem for Westminster in 1958, and the current...modern-music pioneer whose ecclesiastic Mozart sings with uncommon majesty. The rolling...
- Inkinen aims for the heart of Mozart Requiem.
- News wire article from: The America's Intelligence Wire December 6, 2008 700+ words
...paired the extremely well-known Mozart Requiem with two lovely, but seldom heard...twice as many singers onstage as Mozart would have had. Inkinen's approach...emotional performance of the Mozart Requiem. With -- Conductor Pietari Inkinen...
- Utah Symphony review: Inkinen aims for the heart of Mozart Requiem.
- News wire article from: The America's Intelligence Wire December 6, 2008 700+ words
...paired the extremely well-known Mozart Requiem with two lovely, but seldom heard...twice as many singers onstage as Mozart would have had. Inkinen's approach...emotional performance of the Mozart Requiem. With -- Conductor Pietari Inkinen...
- MOZART: Requiem.(Review)
- Magazine article from: Opera News LEWIS, ZACHARY July 1, 2000 700+ words
MOZART: Requiem (New Edition by H. C. Robbins Landon...assessing the final creative output of Mozart, it is difficult to contest the sheer...the subject. But, while the author of Mozart's Last Year (and biographies of Vivaldi...
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