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DVD : Mozart - Requiem & Mass in C MinorIn association with Amazon.comstarring: Barbara Bonney, Anne Sofie von Otter, Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, Anthony Rolfe-Johnson directed by: John Eliot Gardiner  List Price: $29.98 Amazon.com's Price: $20.97 You Save: $9.01 (30%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: DVD EAN: 0044007431214 Format: Classical, Color, DTS Surround Sound, DVD-Video, NTSC Label: Philips Manufacturer: Philips Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Philips Release Date: January 10, 2006 Running Time: 101 minutes Studio: Philips Theatrical Release Date: 1991 Sales Rank: 22501 MPN: 000581909 Related Items:
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 Rating: - The Mysterious Stranger Was......me! Or at least so it often feels when I listen to this shattering musical experience, possibly the most unconsolable requiem in all of music. Yes, I meant that "pathetic fallacy" so don't jump on me. The music itself is alive and unconsolable, though there are intimations of resignation, not unlike Shakespeare's "we are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded by a sleep." Being differently compressed acoustically, DVDs often seem by ear to have a huge advantage ... Read More Rating: - Mozart's final thoughts superbly presentedIt is a well known story: the mysterious stranger in grey (the servant of a Count Walsegg) offering Mozart a generous fee for a Requiem Mass to be written in secrecy; the Count intending to claim it as his own at a memorial service for his wife. Mozart was already in his final illness; he perished shortly after composing the scant outlines of the Requiem up to the Hostias, orchestrating very little himself. Perhaps he left scraps of paper containing ideas for the outer movements, perhaps not. In the event, ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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