W. A. Mozart - Requiem D Minor KV 626 (Robert D. Levin) | WDR Sinfonieorchester | Dima Slobodeniouk
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- Опубликовано: 25 дек 2024
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Requiem in D Minor KV 626 (completion by Robert D. Levin), performed by the WDR Symphony Orchestra and the WDR Radio Choir under the Baton of Dima Slobodeniouk. Soloists are Christina Landshamer (soprano), Marie Henriette Reinhold (alto),
Martin Mitterrutzner (tenor) and Franz-Josef Selig (bass). Performed on March 15, 2019 at the Cologne Philharmonic Hall.
Christina Landshamer, soprano
Marie Henriette Reinhold, alto
Martin Mitterrutzner, tenor
Franz-Josef Selig, bass
WDR Sinfonieorchester
WDR Rundfunkchor
Dima Slobodeniouk, conductor
Introitus
00:40 I. Requiem aeternam. Adagio
04.53 II. Kyrie. Allegro
Sequenz
07:14 III. Dies irae. Allegro assai
09:05 IV. Tuba mirum. Andante
12:22 V. Rex tremendae
14:30 VI. Recordare
19:14 VII. Confutatis. Andante
21:20 VIII. Lacrimosa - Amen
Offertorium
25:58 IX. Domine Jesu. Andante con moto
29:25 X. Hostias. Andante - Andante con moto
Sanctus
33:12 XI. Sanctus. Adagio - Allegro
35:22 XII. Benedictus. Andante - Allegro
Agnus Dei
40:26 XIII. Agnus Dei
Communio
43:55 XIV. Lux aeterna. Adagio - Cum sanctis tuis. Allegro
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Einfach fantastisch. Mozart ist für mich der talentierteste und beste Komponist aller Zeiten.
Traurig, dass er mit 35 Jahren verstorben ist.
Gemessen am Durchschnitt war 35 ein extrem hohes Alter zu der Zeit.
@@sorenxoo3995 Diese Angabe ist unsinnig. Der Durchschnitt war deshalb so niedrig, weil sehr viele Kinder im ersten Jahr starben, siehe meine fünf Geschwister (von sechs) oder vier meiner Kinder (von sechs). Wer die ersten Jahre überstand, konnte auch damals ein respektables Alter erreichen.
Mich als den talentiertesten Musiker zu bezeichnen, fasse ich als Beleidigung auf.
Wenn man bedankt was alles heute über Mozart bekannt ist, ist er schon ein sehr Faszinierender Charakter bei den die grenzen zwischen Warnsinn und Genialität verschwommen.
Wow 💚💚 Könnte ich mir stundenlang anhören.
❤️
Ich komme aus Japan. Ich kann nicht Deutsch schprechen. Schreiben. Einbisschen. Ich muss Deutsch lernen. Englisch ist sehr schwierig.Mozart ist sehr gut. Sehr nett Musik.
This is the song i listened to while walking 3 miles to school. I was 15..
When conductor out of curiousity decides to put his orchestra and choir singers on 2x speed just to see how it will sound.
Absolut! So furchtbar... !
Yeah.... And use the worst version ever made by Levin....... No comment
My God the more I listen to it the more it makes me puke..... What the hell was wrong with Levin????
And before any comment....... I played every single edition of Mozart compositions with the trombones.... And this one is the single piece that from time to time transforms in something that is NOT Mozart, conducting the trombone parts like something else.... Bah....
Just had to say, the bass is fantastic! 💙 Franz Josef Selig has such a wonderful, rich tone.
Music doesn't get any better than this.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ist aus meiner Sicht der absolute genial Komponist gebeten, der auch zudem eine Epoche geschaffen hat, die durch weitere Komponisten die Musik weiter entwickelt wurde. Das Requiem von Mozart ist sehr berührend und Sehr schön, das Requiem habe ich in meinem Leben sehr oft live erlebt, das war für mich immer wieder eine große Bereicherung!
Schön, dass Ihnen diese Komposition so gut gefällt 🤗
Sehe ich auch so. Er war der absolute Maestro 🎉
Eine sehr gute und berührende Aufnahme. Tempi und Interpretation sind hervorragend. Eine 100% stimmige Darbietung :Solisten ,der Chor und der Dirigent sind einsame Klasse,
Ich habe das Requiem selber oft im Chor gesungen ..
Im Moment ist es für mich ein hilfreicher
Begleiter in einer schweren Zeit ....
Danke für die netten Worte! 😊
Es freut uns sehr, dass es Ihnen gefällt und wir Ihnen, zumindest ein bisschen, durch die schwere Zeit helfen können.
There are parts here that sound absolutely beautiful and better than any version by far like at 29:26 . Incredible. This makes me cry. oh Wolfy poor soul😓💔🪽🪽
Thank you!
We're happy that you enjoyed our rendition 🤗
It's a fine performance! I will be listening it a couple more times this week. The modern touches are always welcome, for they only evidence the perdurable genius of the master W.A.Mozart. What I always found funny about Levin's score are those timid violin sections in the Sanctus, I think Levin was inspired by the earlier Mass settings by Mozart, but these compositions have a radically different style compared to the Requiem.
What a fabulous perdormance!!!
Thank you! 🤗
Très belle version, plus dynamique que d'autres, plus contrastée, j'apprécie!
Großartiger Chor!
Nur ein Wort ist gültig: Fantastisch!
Dankeschön 😄
Göttlich
Göttlich
Dankeschön 😊
@@WDRKlassik 🎶🎵😊
Très belle performance. Bravo à tous
Merci beaucoup 🤗
If you don´t think "this is garbage" or something like that, I still think there is hope for you. And If you think "this is garbage" I still think Mozart would think there is hope for you. And if you neither think "this is garbage" nor "not garbage" I still think Mozart has hope for you. Otherwise he wouldn´t have written this wonderful music. It is for us.
To be fair, Mozart didn't write most of this music. Only small parts of it. The rest was completed from very bare sketches (sometimes almost nothing) by Levin.
Großartig!!!
Wunderschön!
Very nice rythm , the Lacrimosa has some variations in it , but finally you can hear the violins and the trumpets which are always kind of hidden in other recordings
100% agree. I'm trying to pull this off RUclips as I prefer it over most other versions. I also love being able to look and see where each tidbit of sound comes from.
Very great performance and that woman has a beautiful voice.
The Amen at the end of Lacrimosa is not a variation but a completion of Mozar's originally intended but uncompleted Amen Fugue which Sussmayr had omitted in his completion. That's why it is not normally played.
For reference this is the Robert Levin edition of Mozart's Requiem. He's a Harvard music professor who finished the mass with instrumentation that theoretically would have fit Mozart's mass better than the more commonly performed Sussmayr edition.
@@EarlJoseph-violinist nobody kmows for sure, what Mozart originally intended. This is only one of unproved theories. I am sustantially pleased with Sussmayers completion.
Nice to see orchestras beginning to prefer this one over the dated and sloppy Süssmayr version. I'm on the firm stance the that the Sanctus, Benedictus and the Agnus Dei contain *some* music by Mozart simply because of the varying degree of compositional quality within a given movement, and while Süssmayr sometimes really did a hack job out of the remaining material Levin managed to balance the rough edges while still retaining the spirit of Mozart at all times. In his own words: change as *little* as possible, not as much as possible. I've pretty much heard all completions as this is my favourite work of all time, and where e. g Maunder and Druce are very arbitrary, wandering and haphazard, Levin is entirely convincing. I especially like the Amen movement, much better than the plagal cadence in the previous version. Unpopular opinion: in 2020, this is the definitive variant of this timeless masterpiece, I can't listen to Süssmayr after this.
Agreed. I prefer Levin's version and I hope all orchestras will follow suit.
Levin is a longtime Mozart scholar and it shows. Most interesting of all he can emulate a Mozart fugue with relative ease, both the Amen and extended Hosanna fugues sound convincing enough to most people. That said however, there will never be any definitive version of the Requiem.
Levin and others respectfully limit themselves to fix Sussmayr's score, not counting that in his time Sussmayr was aided by at least other 3 people. What we call "Mozart's Requiem" is an amalgamation of additions and corrections to Mozart's original score by many composers in a hurry to fullfill Count Walsegg's commision. All modern completions are essentially a new layer of corrections to the already convoluted original score, but it's also a very logical solution considering there is so little material on Mozart's hand from the Lacrimosa onwards.
Levin's edition is solid overall but some aspects of it are a mixed bag for me, partly because he used Mozart's earlier Missa Brevis settings as a guide to his completion and he did not want to take any risks with recomposition. The Amen fugue is "aesthetically convincing" but it lacks the sense of baroque structure and symmetry that Mozart wanted in the work, since each major section was to end with a fugue, and the Sequentia being the longest section, then the Amen would've been set to a more elaborate fugue with modulations and subject mutations (pretty much like the Kyrie fugue) Levin instead composes a compact fugue without modulations, and at least for my ears, it doesn't bring much closure to the huge and magnificent Sequentia. The dull violins in the Sanctus and the voice leading in the Agnus Dei could've been better, too.
I enjoy Druce's version a lot. Druce is more adventurous and not afraid to fully explore the possibilities of the Sussmayr source material. His recomposed Benedictus is excellent and stays true to the proportion and style that Mozart would've chosen for its main theme.
The Requiem is an unfinished masterpiece, and unless it's not to be performed at all or only in its incomplete state up to the beginning to the Lacrimosa, it will always provide for new ways to be interpreted, recomposed and performed. It's one of the many reasons why I love this work so much.
@@VexaS1n “was aided by at least other 3 people”. This is technically true albeit a misleading statement in the sense that 3 composers didn’t work on the Requiem simultaneously. First, the complete orchestration for the Kyrie fugue was elaborated by Jakob Freystadtler for the funeral of Mozart. Then Constanze - still bound by the contract of Count Walsegg mind you - gave the manuscript to two other people *before* Süssmayr, the 26-year old Joseph Eybler and Maximillian Stadler, neither of whom could add anything substantial to the Requiem besides some orchestration scribble here and there before ultimately giving the manuscript back. Constanze didn’t choose Süssmayr initially because in her own words she was resentful towards him at the time (some say she was suspicious about Süssmayr’s growing affiliations with Salieri, then court-composer, who we all know and cherish). Freystadtler, Eybler and Stadler’s work on the Requiem amounts to almost nothing but filling some trivial orchestration parts and that two measure “huic ergo parce deus” scribble in the Lacrymosa Druce foolishly utilised in his completion that has nothing to do with Mozart. Süssmayr almost rewrote/reorchestrated the entire thing these guys did on the Requiem. I tried really hard, but I can’t help but be unimpressed and unconvinced by the Benedictus completion of Druce: it’s like he’s trying to aggressively communicate a point by overextending when all we needed was just some simplification of Süssmayr’s heavy-handed, bombastic writing and crude basso. The material is already Mozartean and sometimes, less is more. I disagree about the need for “adventurousness”, Mozart would have never used such overambitious modulations as some of the other completions do nor would have he utilised so much extra material in a rigorous church fugue that was strictly archaic in form and approach even for its day. And I have to echo Christoph Wolff on this one: Süssmayr has one inalienable advantage over all of us: he was there on the spot, in the immediate atmosphere so to speak possibly even receiving instructions from the man himself. Some musicologists even proposed that he worked off sketches because the *core* of the remaining three movements are such quality Süssmayr could not have produced unaided, who was a second-rate composer as evident from his own compositions. I particularly don’t understand your complaints about the “dull” violins in the Sanctus. Süssmayr’s original parts (with the violinists sawing on ugly repeated notes) are terrible even if we don’t account for the voice leading error, Levin thus provided an elegant solution, celebratory in nature as it should be, based off the K. 427 Mass. And you have to admit, it’s very hard to model your work after anything but Mozart’s lesser masses when his two greatest major sacred works have been left unfinished as a torso (the 427 likely for monetary reasons). Don’t forget, extensive research has conclusively proven that the conceptions of structure and hierarchy in Mozart’s music has already been formed in him when he composed his earliest examples in a given genre.
@@Kris9kris Kris, have you listened to the recent Requiem completion by Mr. Michael Ostrzyga? I have listened to it all... Levin,Druce,Maunder,Cohrs,etc... But Ostrzyga is the most historically accurate and Mozartean edition in recent time! His new SANCTUS in d minor was so convincing that I thought Mozart's original sketch was finally discovered and Ostrzyga transcribed it down. What drama, what passion! He also adds Pizzicato strings in the Benedictus, almost predicting romanticism!!! Safe to say, Ostrzyga will equal (or even surpass) Levin's edition in number of performances. I'm sorry, but Levin's timid scoring, using Missa Brevis models simply doesn't have the fire and intelligence of late Mozartean writing.
@@VexaS1n I listened to Osztryga, and I’m sorry, I don’t see myself buying highly conjectural completions of this piece anymore as there is already an obnoxious overabundance of them: they are IMO nothing more than an exercise in self-actualisation, clout chasing and sometimes deliberate provocation on the part of the completionist.
There are too many snake oil salesmen in this cottage industry who see themselves as non-falsifiable prophets when it comes to the “composer’s true intentions” and the result is more often than not completely at odds with the style they’re working with when you look into it empirically.
Levin summed up this pretty perfectly: with what authority can we know what Mozart would have done? The answer is: nothing. At least he kept what we *know from evidence* Mozart sounds like and discarded what it doesn’t. And if it resembles some Salzburg masses, so be it, that’s not the point. He doesn’t claim he knows what Mozart would have done because you have an impossible mission on your hands if you work with that presupposition. Think of it this way: you finish a building left as a torso aka. incomplete in the 18th century, but you don’t have the exact materials those old craftsmen worked with. WYD? Do you claim you have the access to the exact ingredients, or do you reproduce the *feel* of those old components with modern ones to the best of your ability? If you do the first, you would be utterly dishonest.
I feel like the supermajority of these modern completionists don’t engage with the broader research because they don’t feel they need to. Their confidence and intuition as self-proclaimed composers are all it takes them: for me, their amendments stick out like a sore thumb as a result of it. Plus, we have to give some credit to Süssmayr and the performance tradition - as I said, he was there on the spot, he most likely received instructions, there is no point in changing anything of his unless it demonstrably clashes with Mozart’s well-documented practices. He’s the most researched and talked about composer in all of history after all. If you prefer Osztryga, more power to you, but if you ask me what *sounds like* Mozart, I would say Levin… then Süssmayr.
My scorching hot take is that leave the damned Requiem alone - preferably until new sketches turn up. With that much energy, Cohrs and other such completionists could have written entirely new pieces, and that’s what the utterly dying classical music scene *needs* right now, not patchwork.
Hay buena música, hay buenos compositores y...Mozart, grande entre los grandes, ¡¡¡celestial!!!
kyrie goosebumps dude
😄
Thank you. I enjoyed every delicious moment of this performance.
7:10
VERY BEAUTIFULL PARADISE🤩
Thank you 😊
Ist das jetzt mehr Mozart als die "traditionelle" Süßmayr-Version? Weiß ich nicht. Man kann über die Vergeblichkeit einer Rekonstruktion sagen was man will, aber die Interpretation ist wunderbar. Durch die Wahl der flotten Tempi vergeht auch der letzte romantische Schmalz, den die Süßmayr-Version hatte, z.B. im Benedictus.
bellissima versione bravissimi complimenti
Grazie!
15:43 is the alto starting 'quaerens me' accidentally?
No
Rex tremendae majestatis,
Qui salvandos salvas gratis,
Salve me, fons pietatis.
Recordare, Jesu pie,
Quod sum causa tuae viae,
Ne me perdas ilia die.
Hat der speed genommen?
24:15
Why the rush??
Why not? There's no reason for such glorious music to be lugubrious.
@@MrMusicker But equally we do not want it to descend into an atonal quagmire, which at times it does.
Lacrimosa goosebumps gang wya
ich glaube, dass Sie nichts von klassischer Musik verstehen. Denken Sie mal nach....
I respect your point of view, but no deal ... if you see the composing Year of the Masterpiece, you will find something about 1780-1790... the earlier settings, at least, seems to be more appropriate... gave us the joy to know something "welches freien uns von Süssmayr scheiss... was denkest du?" I had to wait for almost 300 years to find someone that has Breast to do this... but I understand the appeal of the "Falsely Named" (apócrifa) finish done by a classmate of Mozart... auf wiedersehen!
@@adolfdeutschmann9228 , genau so!
21:29
wundervolle Performance, aber wir brauchen anscheinend an einigen Stellen bessere Mikrophone bzw. einen der es versteht so ein Meisterwerk zu vertonen. Es klingt oft flach und gibt die Performance der Aufführung nicht im Geringsten wider. MfG KH
good performance... but the tempo is too fast, must be slower
I dont now this version...is also great...
Ogni tanto qualcuno si scorda che si tratta di una messa da morto che dovrebbe essere eseguita in una chiesa. Il momento è triste. Voglio vedere se anche lì il direttore si mette a ballare.
Ci sarà un motivo per cui la composizione è in tonalità minore e non maggiore. Porcamiseria.
Totalmente de acuerdo,los tempi muy ligeros no son propios de una misa
Mozart decidió no incluir la fuga en el Lacrimosa, pero este señor se arroga el derecho de hacerlo ?
Mil veces mejor la versión Sussmayer,que en definitiva conoció a Mozart
y solo por eso ocupa un lugar que la "pretendida" relevacia de Levin
jamás alcanzará.
Mas respeto sr levin, incluida la partitura incoclusa...
Totally agree, very light tempi are not typical of a mass
Mozart decided not to include the fugue in the Lacrimosa, but does this man claim the right to do so?
A thousand times better the Sussmayer version, which ultimately met Mozart
and for that reason alone it occupies a place that the "pretended" relief of Levin
it will never reach.
More respect mr levin, including the unfinished score
Meme Musik @ 21:40 you are welcome! 😀
To fast...
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too fast
Great performance but I gotta be honest... I didn't like it... the tempo is not the most adequate and I got the the feeling some notes are missing, it felt as if you were speedrunning the hell out of it. In some parts the choir should be louder than the instruments and have a bit more "singing time" if I'm making myself clear.
The lacrimosa, recordare and domine jesu parts really killed me inside. I also hated what you did with benedictus... the violins should play something more gentle to go with the flow of the song. Sorry if I'm beeing too harsh but don't get me wrong though, it was a great performance.
Thanks for your comment!
To this date I still don't understand why the hell some conductors still dare to change the Lacrimosa; I like the amen, ok... Sounds nice ... But as one of the most expected parts of this mass, the Lacrimosa was just frustrating. You can't change a classic like that.
The fact is that Mozart had only written just 8 bars of Lacrimosa -- the rest is a reconstruction. Here the reconstruction by Levin is presented. It is based on Mozart's manuscript (Amen fugue) found later on in his papers.
I can totally but understand your frustration - Sussmayr's Lacrimosa is totally embedded in western culture and is an absolute classic despite its occasional voice leading problems. However, the edition in question (by Levin) tries to have the traditional version a little closer to Mozart's intentions, given that Mozart wanted an Amen fugue, he had to remove that big Amen at the end of the movement. Nonetheless, there are other editions that have the Lacrimosa pretty much untouched (Andrews, Beyer, Landon, etc.).
@@OsGamersdoBrasil Well said. The Sussmayr version has been recorded so many times that listeners either forgot or just never knew that what they were hearing was not all Mozart.
@@redbrian3655 , this is the point... when we hear the Lacrimosa we must think of a double solution: or we lie to ourselves and end on preferring what is NOT Mozart, or we try to think how Mozart COULD have done... and to me, it's mostly honest (respected the contrary opinions) the second solution... there's a lot of unfinished works all over the time... but nobody tried till now to finish the last fugue of the "Kunst der Fuge" by Bach... no one has even tried to think on this... because it's not possible. So the Requiem will ever keep unfinished, but Mozart has material enough to give any adventurers a minute of "dream"... let's give them the benefits of the doubt at all!
I think it's highly uncertain that Süssmayr had received some instruction by Mozart himself... too difficult to us nowadays... difficult as well to a classmate of Mozart to understand double or triple fugues... I repeat: THAT'S the point!
De acuerdo con su opinión, no solo frustra el Lacrimosa, sino que además
es una falta de respeto.
Date questa orchestra e coro a Currentzis…
nighty night night industrial capitalism...sleep tight...
Questa versione non mi sembra quella originale
Ho sentito perecchi Requiem di Mozart diretti da Berstien e altri
Non avevano lAmen tra il lacrimosa e il domine Jesus Criste
Oltretutto gli arrangiamenti sia nelle parti corali e dei solisti fanno stonate il tutto
Per me bocciato
too agresssiv. not only Tempi!but the SOLI v. good./Bernstein's ver. 70 min.here 50 !!!!/
악마가 이기게 해봐 를 취소취소
To fast!
Oh Dear! Two cataclysmic elements combine to make this one of the worst performances I have heard, despite the technical excellence of the performers.
1. Why is the conductor so determined to break the speed record for a performance of this majestic piece? At times it just mergers into an atonal quagmire of sound.
2. This version is just awful. The Hosanna's are as if written by Beethoven! At least Sussmayer had some concept of Mozart.
I stress that the quality of the performance from orchestra, chorus and soloists is excellent from a technical viewpoint. Bravo to them. They cannot help the Conductor or the excruciating Levin version.
Das sind nur Noten gespielt und gesungen. Wo ist die Musik? Das Orchester spielt schrecklich.
Wie sollen sie anders, bei dem Dirigenten? Da kann sich niemand Einfinden.
@@111jwfh das Schlimmste sind immer die staatlichen Institutionen, das sind Beamte, die sich als Musiker ausgeben 🤣
Ich würde jetzt nicht sagen dass es schrecklich ist, es gibt bestimmt viele für die es keine bessere Fassung gibt. Aber falls dich meine unprofessionelle Meinung interessiert, mir gefällt es auch nicht so sehr.
Exactly.
딸로 해봐 취소
Apparently he had a train to catch. Horrible.
Einfach schrecklich, ich muss gleich wieder wegschauen. Zum Glück gibt es diese Möglichkeit! Halleluja dass ich da nicht drin gesessen habe.
Dein Pech wenn du dieses Meisterwerk nicht verstehst! Hör auf Hate zu verbreiten und schau dir nicht solche Göttlichkeit an wenn du so etwas eh nicht magst !!
@@LSW501
Sie checker😅🙄... .
Ich finde es, anders beschrieben, echt grün hinter den Ohren und requiem-fern. Manchmal gibt's auch Schönes dabei, zum Glück. Drin sitzen hätte ich trotzdem nicht wollen.
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