Title: Probably the worst performance I know for Mozart's Requiem
Product review: Karajan, like Karajan, gives a well-polished performance, but lacking the slightest esprit. The singers are very good, the orchestra and the choir are well coordinated, but it all sounds like an army discipline. The military associations do not end up here: in fortissimo pieces (like the Dies Irae) Karajan, as always, exposes all his aggressiveness. He's not powerful, but violent. Even in pieces like the Lacrimosa it seems as though the choir sounds sad because someone gave them an order to sound sad.Leave Karajan in anything that needs an expression of true sentiment (in short: in anything having to do with music...). If you want a good performance of Mozart's requiem - turn to Barenboim's early recording.
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