Mozart / Winchester College Chapel Choir - Requiem - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

W.a. Mozart - Requiem [COMPACT DISCS] date 08/30/2011

On the occasion of Mozart's anniversary in 2006, a new recording of his Requiem was produced by an exceptional cast The Thomanerchor Leipzig (St Thomas's Boys Choir Leipzig) and the Gewandhaus Orchester (Gewandhaus Orchestra) are joined by renowned soloists under the baton of the present cantor at St Thomas, Georg Christoph Biller.

Well-known for spearheading a general revival of interest in, and modernizing the performance practices of Baroque music, especially Bach, after WWII, Karl Richter (1926-81) also conducted works by composers other than Bach, including Handel and Mozart. Heard here conducting the choral and orchestral forces he founded in mid-20th c., the Munchener Bach-Chor and Munchener Bach-Orchester, this performance of Mozart's Requiem, KV626 features a stellar company of soloists, including sopranos Maria Stader, Hertha Toepper and the fine Dutch-born lyric tenor John van Kesteren.