Mozart: Requiem
Chadi Lazreq (treble), Ying Fang (soprano), Beth Taylor (mezzo), Laurence Kilsby (tenor), Alex Rosen (bass)
Pygmalion, Raphaël Pichon
Awards:
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Presto Recording of the Week, 4th October 2024
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalists 2024
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Choral
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2024
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2025, Shortlisted - Choral
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Gramophone Awards, 2025 Shortlist, Choral
Pichon and his superb choir and period instrument orchestra, Pygmalion, move the discussion on by sensitively adding their own interpretive layer in this beautiful and truly moving programme.
Mozart: Requiem
Chadi Lazreq (treble), Ying Fang (soprano), Beth Taylor (mezzo), Laurence Kilsby (tenor), Alex Rosen (bass)
Pygmalion, Raphaël Pichon
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Awards:
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Presto Recording of the Week, 4th October 2024
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalists 2024
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Choral
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2024
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2025, Shortlisted - Choral
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Gramophone Awards, 2025 Shortlist, Choral
Pichon and his superb choir and period instrument orchestra, Pygmalion, move the discussion on by sensitively adding their own interpretive layer in this beautiful and truly moving programme.
About
The sublime reflection of a human being faced with his own finitude and what comes afterwards, Mozart’s Requiem reaches beyond the realm of music to attain universal resonance. Raphaël Pichon’s interpretation of this testamentary work, nurtured by a seminal experience with stage director Romeo Castellucci and punctuated by earlier sacred pieces of Mozart, is overwhelmingly moving.
Contents and tracklist
- Ensemble Pygmalion, Chadi Lazreq
- Raphaël Pichon
- Ensemble Pygmalion, Raphaël Pichon, Chadi Lazreq
- Ensemble Pygmalion, Raphaël Pichon, Chadi Lazreq
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A Mozart Requiem with a twist from Pygmalion and Raphaël Pichon
4th Oct 2024
The French conductor and his dynamic ensemble shed new light on the score (given here in Süssmayr's familiar completion) by weaving in material from Mozart's youth which foreshadows ideas later developed in the Mass - including an early 'Miserere' and music from 'Thamos, König in Ägypten'.
Awards and reviews
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Presto Recording of the Week4th October 2024
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Presto Recordings of the YearFinalists 2024
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International Classical Music Awards2025Nominated - Choral
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Gramophone MagazineDecember 2024
December 2024
Pichon and his superb choir and period instrument orchestra, Pygmalion, move the discussion on by sensitively adding their own interpretive layer in this beautiful and truly moving programme.
December 2024
This is a Requiem that goes all out for dramatic effect, the explosive choral consonants of the opening matched by acutely focused string syncopations.
4th October 2024
As on the Presto Award-winning Libertà! back in 2019, Pichon presents compelling evidence that the seeds of Mozart’s mature masterpieces were sown in the composer’s extreme youth, and the results are truly ear-opening...When the Mass proper gets underway, Pichon seems at pains to remind us of Mozart’s indebtedness to the Baroque tradition. Perhaps his swift tempi in the quartet movements won’t be to everyone’s taste, but certainly they convey a keen sense of the dying composer’s race against time.
23rd October 2024
By careful selection of the 22 tracks you can still isolate the usual version in Süssmayr’s familiar completion, blessed with fiercely eloquent singing and an instrumental balance usefully weighted towards the dark, plangent colours of winds and brass. The sonics in the additions are equally thrilling.
Limelight Magazine 25th September 2024
Pygmalion, Pichon’s period orchestra and choir, are incisive, spirited, and exact, both in intonation and diction….Beautifully recorded in Namur’s Grand Manège concert hall, this a memorable and enthralling take on a sometimes over-familiar work. A real breath of fresh air.
