Classical Music for Aficionados

It is my favorite version among other great one, like the Bohm one, but this Hogwood interpretion with a children voice chorus is an interpration that did never sound like a mass but like a drama, a spiritual opera, expressing the fear of death, the acceptance of death and the desire for death like in a children heart afraid and at the same time nostalgically aspiring to the promising adventure, all that make this version unique and to be frank the best for me in spite of any other possible and rightful criticism someone could make...No interpretation is perfect....But this one catch the universal essence of this ARCHETYPICAL work about death...

Contrary to the magnificent Bohm version that sound like a magnificent mass for example, the Hogwood version sound like a spiritual opera not a mass at all.... How deep and how wise was this choice of children voices and of the pulsating rythm and tempo to illustrate Mozart beating heart at the time of his own death...Thanks Christopher Hogwood...

This is the more universal Requiem ever written because of this PRIMEVAL understanding of death for the children heart in each of us, like the swift coming of the great fearsome riper and like the awaiting of our loving mother after our own death at the same time ....And listening to this we are all children again facing death....

And listen the solists they are singing like in an opera they dont pray, they tell a spiritual intimate and at the same time universal story.... The prayer is not in the parts of this " requiem mass" but you can listen to this prayer in the irresistible dancing beating pulsating heart of the composer himself writing all the voices like if each one of them was himself speaking....Incredible feat....The more efficient and powerful requiem ever written....Who will dare to write a requiem after that, it will be difficult to wrote another concerto called the "Four seasons" after Vivaldi, or another work called the Well tempered Klavier or the Art of the fugue after Bach ...

This Requiem is magical especially in this interpretation....

When in my early twenties I literally wore out the grooves of three or four vinyl records of the Mozart Requiem playing it every day.

To me the greatest of all requiems and some of the greatest music ever written.

Me too... i used to play it often... 😁

And for me too....😊

My deepest respects to you....

A note: i was speaking about the Bohm 1971 version....I like it much but second after  Hogwood....

I like this French  version of  the Mozart .

Very beautiful version but a mass of requiem and no more a drama and a spiritual theater...

It is like Bohm version a mass not an opera....I dont claim that it is not beautiful, it is....

But moving us nearer the abyss of fear and redemption at the same time, i only feel it with the Hogwood version....

By the way this work is like the art of the fugue, so much deep and beautiful, i collect all version and like them all....

But for the art of the fugue of Bach i like much the Neville Mariner version for example amongst them all ... Not because it is the better one, not at all, but because it make possible and more easier to listen to this everest of music one thousand time at least....

The variety of instruments used and the their limited numbers at the same time and the alternate parts with only harpsichord or organ is wonderful idea of Mariner...It make this abstract algebraic musical geometical feat lanscape a more human easy to grasp landscape...

«If you feel happy but dont feel death you are not near a volcano»-Anonymus Volcanologist

I like this French version of the Mozart .