(March 16, 2017 at 9:37 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote:(March 16, 2017 at 7:49 pm)bennyboy Wrote: At 46:10, that's a pretty snappy interpretation. On listening, it sounds borderline manic. Not much mystery, but an awful lot of fire and brimstone!
Next step. . . Metallica!
Of course, that said, that recording is from a different reconstruction than many are used to. Surprisingly, despite being two centuries and several continents separated from Mozart, unlike Sussmayer, Robert Levin somehow managed to do a better Mozart than Sussmayer, who would likely have been, at most, two degrees of separation from him.
Levin is a pianist who is well-known for improvising cadenzas for Mozart's works that do an exceptional job at creating stuff that sounds like authentic Mozart off the top of his head:
And surprisingly, despite the piano concerti and sonatas having extremely different needs from the requiem, he does an exceptional job of pulling this off.
Awesome
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition
