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
- Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, Cheryl Studer, Francisco Araiza, Olaf Bär, Samuel Ramey, Academy of St Martin in the Fields & Sir Neville Marriner
- The English Concert & Trevor Pinnock
- Collegium Vocale Gent, Hanno Müller-Brachmann, La Chapelle Royale, Orchestre des Champs-Elysées & Philippe Herreweghe
- Academy of St Martin in the Fields & Sir Neville Marriner
- Choir of Clare College, Cambridge, Freiburger Barockorchester & René Jacobs