Title: Disappointingly dull, lackluster Mozart
Product review: Could this be the same Abbado who just gave us on CD a wonderfully exciting, vibrant and expressive performance of Mahler's "Das Knaben Wunderhorn?" You'd never guess it from the enervated, plodding and listless versions of Mozart's Requiem and a couple of other sacred pieces here. The singing is adequate but not great or memorable, but it's the seemingly perfunctory conducting that deadens the entire disc. Go for Davis (especially), Marriner, Schreier or Gardiner if you want a spirited, gripping Mozart Requiem.
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