Mozart Requiem recommendations?
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I bought this album from the recommendation of @dcc. Thank you. Excellent album you won't be disappointed. At first I played and thought the rhythm was weird, then I realized I goofed. It is a 45.
I agree on all counts. It was a question mark at first, but I quickly got into it, down to the sound of the Orthodox priest at the end of Lacrymosa!
Thanks for the recommendation!
Peter A. thankfully located a CD copy for me on Discogs (he has the LP, will be fun to compare at some point), and I received it recently, quite a long time after ordering. I guess the CD must have literally shipped from Austria. I suppose the recording is available on streaming services as well. The interpretation seems excellent to me, and so is the sound.
This Propius recording was made in the St. Jakob's (St. James's) Church in Stockholm:
Saint James's Church, Stockholm - Wikipedia
Voices, strings, woodwinds and brass sound beautiful, dynamics are excellent. The portrayal of the reverberant church space is extraordinary. The solo trombone at the beginning of Tuba Mirum is simply wow, you can just feel the large space.
There is also beautiful expansion of space. The Benedictus begins with soloists more towards the middle of the soundstage, the entrance of the brass later on expands the space to the left and into huge spatial depth (sounds amazing), and the entrance of the choir towards the end greatly expands the vocal space in width on both sides.
Reminds me, I've had the LP for a while but not listened to it yet!Thanks for the recommendation!
Peter A. thankfully located a CD copy for me on Discogs (he has the LP, will be fun to compare at some point), and I received it recently, quite a long time after ordering. I guess the CD must have literally shipped from Austria. I suppose the recording is available on streaming services as well. The interpretation seems excellent to me, and so is the sound.
This Propius recording was made in the St. Jakob's (St. James's) Church in Stockholm:
Saint James's Church, Stockholm - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
Voices, strings, woodwinds and brass sound beautiful, dynamics are excellent. The portrayal of the reverberant church space is extraordinary. The solo trombone at the beginning of Tuba Mirum is simply wow, you can just feel the large space.
There is also beautiful expansion of space. The Benedictus begins with soloists more towards the middle of the soundstage, the entrance of the brass later on expands the space to the left and into huge spatial depth (sounds amazing), and the entrance of the choir towards the end greatly expands the vocal space in width on both sides.
I to have brand new classical lps that I have never listened to.Reminds me, I've had the LP for a while but not listened to it yet!
I first fell in love with and would walk the river at night listening to Karajan’s. Call it virgin bias or whatever, but the timbres and unified sound they accomplished is “just so” to me. Mix is well blended and everything is pronounced just enough not too much.
Incidentally, I too grew up with Karajan /DG, then graduated to Bohm and Walter. In later years I turn to Celibidache and, recently, Currentzis -- the latter being the most quirky of the lot!
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