It’s time we got a lowercase-c classical/Western academic/art music thread going. Post favorites, new discoveries, dissections etc, and interpret “classical” loosely
Starting off with one of the most popular pieces in the canon, at the store I found this interesting new version of the Mozart/Süssmayr Requiem which, aside from boasting handsome recordings of the standard work, incorporates otherwise unrelated compositions into the sequence. There are three pieces before the standard Introit, the first of which isn’t even by Mozart (credited anonymously as far as I can tell). The third movement of Serenade No. 10 for winds shows up—and has been reworked to include an entire choral section—in the middle of the now-divided Offertory.
Humble amateur though I am, I’ve listened to the Requiem a number of times and think these additions don’t feel stapled on. It’s a little incongruous but I feel it expands and illuminates the work. Since recording technology has been around it’s been common practice to include multiple works on the same record/tape/CD to take advantage of the space, but I haven’t chanced upon anything like this before. It seems the conductor/arranger Raphaël Pichon is known for this but is it otherwise a new popular phenomenon? Am I just out of the loop?
I’m otherwise most familiar with this recording conducted by Neville Marriner
