Mozart: Requiem – Lacrimosa | SO & GC | CM Berlin

Symphony Orchestra & Grand Choir of the Collegium Musicum Berlin Conductor: Donka Miteva Wolfgang A. Mozart: Requiem – Lacrimosa & Amen newly edited and completed by *Michael Ostrzyga* ( @MichaelOstrzyga ) Recorded on July 1, 2022 at Berlin Philharmonic, Germany In the 1960s, a sketch by Mozart of an Amen Fugue surfaced. It can be assumed that it was intended for the Requiem when Mozart wrote it down: Not only is there a sketch for the Rex tremendae and the Magic Flute on the same page, written like the Requiem in 1791, but there are also striking compositional references to the Introit. Moreover, Mozart did not work on any other work during this period in which the word “Amen“ appears. The arrangement of the reeds in Mozart’s manuscript, as has sometimes been pointed out, does indeed leave far too little space for an extensive fugue at this point, but the exchange and insertion of further reeds was common and also occurred in Mozart’s work. It is surely no coi