Mozart's unfinished Requiem is surrounded by legend. Commissioned in secrecy and conceived while the composer was fatally ill, it has been credited with conveying his premonitions of his own death. More far-fetched but equally alluring is the scene portrayed in the film Amadeus, in which Mozart dictates the terrifying "Confutatis" to Antonio Salieri, convicted by the rumor mill as Mozart's murderer. The angelic voices of Anne-Sofie Von Otter and Barbara Bonney, supported by the period instruments of the English Baroque Soloists, convey the fear of death and hope of an afterlife in this final statement from the world's greatest composer.
- 2012
- Academy of Ancient Music, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Carolyn Watkinson, Christopher Hogwood, David Thomas & Dame Emma Kirkby
- The English Concert & Trevor Pinnock
- Collegium Vocale Gent, Hanno Müller-Brachmann, La Chapelle Royale, Orchestre des Champs-Elysées & Philippe Herreweghe
- Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, Cheryl Studer, Francisco Araiza, Olaf Bär, Samuel Ramey, Academy of St Martin in the Fields & Sir Neville Marriner
- Academy of St Martin in the Fields & Sir Neville Marriner
- Philippe Herreweghe, Rosa Mannion, Birgit Remmert, James Taylor, Cornelius Hauptmann, La Chapelle Royale, Orchestre des Champs Elysées & Collegium Vocale Gent