Mozart: Requiem – Dies Irae | SO & GC | CM Berlin

Symphony Orchestra & Grand Choir of the Collegium Musicum Berlin
Conductor: Donka Miteva

Wolfgang A. Mozart: Requiem – Dies Irae
newly edited and completed by Michael Ostrzyga ( @MichaelOstrzyga )
Recorded on July 1, 2022 at Berlin Philharmonic, Germany

It is impossible to imagine what Mozart would have invented, or perhaps had already invented. Nevertheless, the new addition was about the thought experiment of deducing the extent and nature of Mozart's instructions from everything that exists in someone else's hand. In this way, it is possible to derive - only incompletely, hypothetically, of course - instructions for completing the Requiem as a "whole", based on Mozart's presumed intentions in the form of general procedures, melodic material, contrapuntal constellations, harmonic progressions, instrumental accompaniments, concrete borrowings from older works by Mozart or Handel and Bach, and so on. Once I had uncovered this "composing backwards", I tried to compose the Requiem forwards again, starting from the music Mozart had written up to his death and the influences he bundled in the Requiem. ~ Michael Ostrzyga

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