Title: Mozart Requiem with a hefty dash of CH3COOH
Product review: Recordings of the Mozart Requiem are legion. If a particular performance is to stand out nowadays, it needs a claim to fame. Such is the case here: Savall's performance is the most vinegary of them all.This is period practice with a vengeance: the strings are completely devoid of lustre. Savall must subscribe to the 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof' School of string playing: it's exercrable. Alternatives such as Gardiner, Spering, Harnoncourt, Neumann, Norrington and many others are 'Karajan Soup' by comparison. As a consequence, the woodwind and timpany are to the fore, which makes for a very exciting performance . . . . . on a superficial level.The Masonic Funeral March is one of Mozart's most profound compositions but you would never know it if Savall was your sole reference. It's a steeplechase set to music: "Oh, come with us and gallop, and gallop, and gallop."Don't shortchange yourself by purchasing this CD like I wantonly did. Respect your ears !!!
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