Mozart Requiem Claudio Abbado Lucerne Festival Orchestra

Mozart did not write the Requiem as despairing funeral music for his impending death Rather the piece proclaims eternal light and redemption Together with a firstclass quartet of soloists the choirs of the Bavarian and Swedish radios and the distinguished musicians of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra Claudio Abbado uncovers this more hopeful and forgiving essence of the Requiem