Requiem - Version pour piano à 4 mains

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The supreme work of the most extraordinary man: this is how the composer Johann Adam Hiller referred to the "Requiem" by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, which is now published by GENUIN in an unusual arrangement. The duo of pianists Kerstin Straßburg and Jürgen Appell has recorded for the first time the astonishing four-hand piano version of Mozart's Requiem by Carl Czerny, a student of Beethoven and teacher of Liszt. The choral parts, vocal solos, and all orchestral sections have been incorporated into the piano part, allowing the polyphonic beauty of Mozart's work to emerge in a kind of concentration with unimaginable clarity. The world premiere recording of this version on CD also includes the moving Amen fugue on the "Lacrymosa," which New York pianist Robert D. Levin reconstructed from fourteen measures of Mozart's writing discovered several years ago.