Very fine Mozart, but...
Chopin is said to have asked that Mozart's Requiem Mass be performed at his funeral. He died on 17 October 1849. The DVD under review documents a mass celebrated on 17 October 2010 at the Holy Cross Church in Warsaw in commemoration of the anniversary of Chopin's death. Embedded in the liturgy of the mass (read in Latin and in Polish) is the performance of Mozart's Requiem by Philippe Herreweghe, a quartet of outstanding soloists, the Orchestre des Champs-Elysées and two excellent choirs. If you are primarily interested in Mozart and want to hear the requiem without liturgical interpolations, you will have to make your way to the respective submenu and then choose "play all" at its bottom. This took me a while to figure out, so be forewarned. You may conclude from the above that this performance of the Requiem (like Solti's musically flawed 1991 Vienna production) is a stop-and-go enterprise and thus does not have the natural continuity the music requires. This is obvious even...
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