Marie-Claude Chappuis reviews
Telemann: Miriways
André Morsch, Michael Nagy, et al; Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin/Bernard Labadie (Pentatone)
René Jacobs gives a 'bold, innovative and passionate' interpretation of Mozart's Requiem
Bold, innovative and passionate, René Jacobs’s new reading of Mozart’s Requiem towers above the crowd. Pierre-Henri Dutron’s new completion of this famously unfinished score illuminates how Mozart was re-forging his musical language in the year he died to make it tauter and deeper, yet more transparent. So forceful are Mozart’s ideas that they regenerate themselves even in the completion by Franz Xaver Süssmayr, which Dutron adapts to realise more fully Mozart’s new procedures.