Mozart-A-Thon continues at YourClassical with another Mozart
free piece, today. This is third straight day at YourClassical with a Mozart
giveaway. I surmised yesterday, after we had gotten two of them in a row, that we may have them the whole week. The 27th, I think that it is, is Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's birthday.
Today we can get an MP3 of
Requiem: Agnus Dei. As performed, it runs 2 minutes, 20 seconds.
One of the performers of the album is the Gewandhaus Chamber Choir. There is choral singing on the
free piece, so it is presumably from that choir. Leipzig Chamber Orchestra is also credited with performances on the album, and Morten Schuldt-Jensen gets the nod for directing, as conductor.
The
free piece comes from a Naxos album called
Mozart - Requiem. There is a lot of human interest matter associated with the album. On
the dedicated Naxos webpage for the album, Naxos says:
At his premature death in the early hours of 5th December, 1791, Mozart left his final masterpiece unfinished and shrouded in mystery. It had been commissioned by a ‘grey messenger’ whose ghostly apparition convinced the sick and impoverished composer that he was being told to write his own musical epitaph. This and the myth of his being poisoned by the jealous Salieri became the stuff of legend in the 19th century, and inspired an opera, a play and a film in the twentieth century. The Requiem remains one of the most personal, impassioned and profound of Mozart’s works.
So, you will be hearing one of the last pieces that Mozart composed!
The piece is beautiful. If you don't want to take my word for it, take the
free piece on a test drive before downloading it, by navigating to
this webpage and clicking on the appropriate place on the stream bar. Not commitment-phobic, and ready to download? Navigate to
the same webpage, and click on "Direct MP3 download link." It does exactly what it suggests--clicking on that link immediately starts the download to the place where you have such things set up to go to.