Requiem (chor, sopran I) Mozart part1

[goghwatch]

thanks for posting! i listened to this CD recording of the bernstein/mclaughlin/hadley/ew­ing requiem so much as a kid, that i put a skip in the intro.

[icharisghost]

the middle doesn't get lost in this one but stands out nicely

[CioccolatinoSvizzero]

this music make me dream.. luv mozart

[sclyfes1212]

So many different interpretations, I think we should stick by what mozart wrote ;) Interpreting THIS piece is useless and stupid in my opinion.

[townclose]

A full life in the 1700's was approximately 50 yrs. Life expectency was much lower back then.

[catgumart]

I wonder, had he lived, what Mozart would have gone on to write with Beethoven on the scene in Vienna, maybe Mozart would have moved to Prague where he was well accepted, maybe he would not have liked Beethoven..had he lived a full life (about 75 years) he would have witnessed been a part of the early Romantic period, such a sad loss.

[PancakesoftheLove]

@catgumart While he missed the beginnings of the Romantic era, I love to believe that this final piece that (sadly) went unfinished contains so much Romanticism ahead of its time, still classically contained, of course, but I mean, come on - listen and tell me it doesn't feel like an early Romantic piece!

[iosifkiss]

Thise were the music played at Napoleon's funerals when his body were brought back to France... Great has him and Mozart this song...

[acerb45666555]

nice!! quite the change from Disharmonia Mundi!.....ps: its a band, not a song by Mozart.

[thegoddescomposer]

the best requiem ever , thank u so much , so much,

[Nanumir]

I love it! thank You very much!!!

[Destatur]

thank you for the upload :D love it

[lamciuszek2]

genius i doesn't hear Mozart how far but this is fantastic and so calm it makes good on nerves and humor

[gelewart]

Bernstein's interpretation of the Introitus is by far the most moving and majestic. It is at a slower tempo than I have heard before, but I must say that this pace enhances the deep sadness in the music. I had expected Bernstein's interpretation to be overly dramatic and theatrical. Not so. I do not enjoy the fast, "bouncy" tempos of other conductors who are striving to retain the shape of the phrase. Bernstein is able to play at a slow tempo yet able to retain a sense of musical shape.

[Aleksander1981]

Introduction puissante, profonde, magistrale

[seddikus]

all the requiem is now uploaded (with 14 parts) look in the video info

[ihamoitc2005]

One good thing about this version, while not historically accurate or particularly well balanced, is that it demonstrates just how much depth and beauty there is in Mozart's music such that even when played at half pace the listener can barely comprehend it all. Try this with most other music and it just falls apart.

[cilicio]

In my opinion the best rendition of the beginning of Mozart'Requiem. It coveys the meditations and the deep attitude of the conductors, himself an old man near his departure.

[Mrbojangles76]

to slow. Sorry Leonard. Though one of yours is the best i have heard.

[Smithers103]

ha ha... i guess we can argue till the world blows up but it wont take away from the fact that this is a beautiful peice of music!!!!

[khatholic]

it's not supposed... it is true. This requiem was Mozart's last work, and towards the end his hands were too swollen to write. There is alot of debate as to whether the ending was written by his assistant, or dictated by Mozart, or just partially written by the assistant. But smithers is write. There is no point in arguing about it. Good music is good music.

[Marsyke]

i agree with that

and this is definitely good music

[GhostRiderBaby88]

this is absolutely beautiful, & it sounds kind of sad. i love classical music and opera. thanks for posting!

[DeUltiemeLosers]

All of Mozart's music is beautiful. It's the epitome of class and refinement.

[Smithers103]

remember mozart only composed something like 40% of this peice!!

[seddikus]

really ? you were there ? no one can say this some people think that the requiem was almost finished by mozart, anyway there are not only one piece of the requiem, this one is the "Introït"

[Smithers103]

dnt get me wrong mate that the Requiem is of unimaginable beauty but this peice of music could not possibly have been completed by Mozart - there are many different versions of Requiem as some modern day composers and authorities on Mozart have taken out the phrases in Requiem which are clearly not in the style of mozart and inserted bars which are more in his style.

[Smithers103]

Therefore, the Requiem as a whole takes a new character so we cannot praise mozart completely for this peice of work as evidentially it is not all his own!

[Smithers103]

I do know the Requiem is in several individual parts, i experienced a very solemn version of this at a church near my university only 2 weeks ago

[mesedoimuchuon]

What I know is that the Introitus and Kyrie section is definitely by Mozart himself, but since he entered the Sequence, he wrote mostly of them and his student Sussmayr helped him.

[seddikus]

Introitus Requiem: (Chœur) Requiem aeternam dona eis, Domine, et lux perpetua luceat eis. (Soprano) Te decet hymnus, Deus, in Sion, et tibi reddetur votum in Jerusalem. (Chœur) Exaudi orationem meam, ad te omnis caro veniet. Requiem aeternam dona eis, Domine, et lux perpetua luceat eis.