| Stephansdom |
I recently rediscovered a lovely
performance of Mozart's Requiem—sung as part of a full Mass almost 20 years ago to celebrate Mozart—It contains some
striking contrasts, performer-wise. And it’s a performance I will enjoy
watching and listening to again.
This is the last Mozart performance of the lovely and tragically
short-lived soprano Arleen Auger—a quintessential Mozart singer who succumbed
to cancer in the prime of her career. It's also one of the last performances of
the elderly Sir Georg Solti (and I hope I don’t sound unkind if I say he
probably should have stopped conducting sooner.) The always-slightly-under-the-radar
Vinson Cole was early-mid career; and Cecelia Bartoli and Rene Pape were just
getting their feet wet (RP was not yet thirty!).
