Nuria Rial, Münchener Kammerorchester, Alexander Liebreich - Mozart: Requiem, K. 626 (2013)

Mozart's Requiem is a memorable experience in almost any performance, but no other that I know is more moving or as fully satisfying as Giulini's recording from 1979. The sound and singing are excellent and the tempos seem to me ideal, neither as brisk as period performance versions nor as broad as most earlier recordings or even later ones like those of Bernstein or Giulini himself in his 1991 rerecording of the work. The performance is, by turns, passionate, devotional, and beautifully lyrical. It is a performance where everything comes together.