Celebrating With A Requiem

My perusal of BBC Music mag cover disks has now reached the beginning of 2006, which was a big anniversary year for Mozart. The music magazine marked that with this disk of the Requiem and Symphony No 36 ( Linz ) performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus conducted by Jiri Belohlavek in the Requiem and Walter Weller in the Symphony. Soloists for the Requiem are Kate Royal soprano, Karen Cargill mezzo, Robert Murray tenor and Matthew Rose bass. The Requiem is given in the Sussmayr completion, the myth and stories surrounding the composition surely needing no repetition here. This is the only version of the Requiem that I have, maybe due to a possibly superstitious reluctance to listen to such subject matter as a means of enjoyment ( alhtough of course there is much more in the repertoire that I do have which is tragic in nature ). This is a live concert recording and the balance suffers a little, while the soloists may not be of the very first rank. A serviceable performance though. The Symphony is similarly the only complete version that I have but isn't sufficiently exciting to deter me from eventually purchasing a more competitive account. This is a routine run through without any guiding vision about how the work should sound.