Jordi Savall, Le Concert des Nations, La Capella reial de Catalunya - Mozart: Requiem K626, Maurerische Trauermusik K477 (2010)
Jordi Savall, Le Concert des Nations, La Capella reial de Catalunya - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Requiem K626, Maurerische Trauermusik K477 (2010)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 277 Mb | Total time: 55:05 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Alia Vox | # AVSA 9880 | Recorded: 1991
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 277 Mb | Total time: 55:05 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Alia Vox | # AVSA 9880 | Recorded: 1991
The repertoire choices here seem curiously conservative, considering the course of Jordi Savall's career in recent years. The answer to that conundrum lies in the date of recording – 1991. Back then, Savall was a much more mainstream kind of period performance performer, so a disc of Mozart's Requiem would have seemed like a logical choice for him, especially given that the year marked the bicentenary of the composer's death.
Even back then he was a radical, and what makes this recording prophetic is the relaxed way that the period performance conventions are applied. In the early 90s, there was still a lingering sense of academic earnestness about most period instrument performance, but Jordi Savall demonstrates the value of a light touch, which has since more or less become the convention. In the context of the Mozart Requiem, that sits uneasily with the gravity of the subject, although it serves to highlight the Classical elegance that is never far from the surface in Mozart's music. There are no super-fast tempos here, at least by period performance standards, the Rex tremendae is the only movement that seems a shade faster than comfortable. Subtle dynamics rather than rubato are used to shape the soloists phrases, and despite the almost playful atmosphere, closer listening reveals an impressive discipline in the tempos, balance and ornamentation.
On the whole, the orchestra are more impressive than the choir, and putting the Masonic Funeral Music at the start of the disc gives them an excellent chance to show of their complex tone colours. Savall makes a big thing out of the fact that period basset horns are used. They are prominent in the opening, but after that you have to listen for them. They do add a wonderful earthy colour to the middle register of the woodwinds. There is some nice raspy playing from the brass (although some of their fortes could be better controlled), and the timpani sound suitably archaic. The strings seem a little underpowered, I don't know what the conventions of the time were, but two to a part strikes me as stingy. The choir is also small, and their tone colour isn't particularly interesting. They sing with excellent precision though.–Gavin Dixon
Performer:
Montserrat Figueras, soprano
Claudia Schubert, alto
Gerd Türk, tenor
Stephan Schreckenberger, basse
La Capella reial de Catalunya
Le Concert des Nations
Jordi Savall, director
Tracklist:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
01. Maurerische Trauermusik K477
Requiem In D Minor, K 626
02. Requiem aeternam
03. Dies Irae
04. Tuba mirum
05. Rex tremendae
06. Recordare
07. Confutatis
08. Lacrimosa
09. Domine Jesu
10. Hostias
11. Sanctus
12. Benedictus
13. Agnus Dei
14. Lux Aeterna
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