The staged production of Raphaël Pichon’s concept for Mozart’s Requiem with director Romeo Castellucci premiered at Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, 2019. After several dates across Europe, a concert version premiered at the 2023 BBC Proms; The Times headline exclaimed, “Mozart’s Requiem is reborn at the Proms” continuing with “It’s not often a performance of Mozart’s Requiem comes along that makes it sound …
Mozart: Requiem
Playlist
Mozart: Requiem in D minor, K. 626
Ying Fang; Beth Taylor; Laurence Kilsby; Alex Rosen; Pygmalion/Raphaël Pichon
Mozart: “Miserere mei” (Originally “Kyrie”), K. 90
Pygmalion/Raphaël Pichon
Mozart: Motet, “Quis te comprehendat,” K. Anh 110
Pygmalion/Raphaël Pichon
Mozart: Two German Church Songs, K. 343/1, “O Gottes Lamm”
Beth Taylor; Pygmalion/Raphaël Pichon
Contemplation
The young British baritone Huw Montague Rendall makes his debut as an exclusive Erato recording artist joined by the Rouen Opera Orchestra under its music director Ben Glassberg. The album demonstrates the multiple facets of Montague Rendall’s talent and his exceptional stylistic sensitivity. Huw Montague Rendall has already performed the roles Papageno (Magic Flute), Count Almaviva (Marriage of Figaro), Don …
Sarahbanda
Berlin Philharmonic French hornist Sarah Willis’s three-album Mozart y Mambo project fused Mozart with Cuban rhythms. Besides recording all of Mozart’s horn concertos, the project also experimented with the French horn joining the traditional Cuban band mix of saxophone and rhythm section. Willis loved this grouping so much that she subsequently formed the Sarahbanda with some of Cuba’s most talented …
