Parts of the Requiem Mass (D minor.)
This rendition is from the movie Amadeus. It differs from the classic Marriner rendition, by way of additional drums from the acoustic section towards the end. — Thanks to @Yağmur Umay Karaca for that interesting tidbit!
Mozart's ebullient Symphony No. 39, among the last to be composed. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s final masterpiece was commissioned in mid 1791 by the Austrian count Franz Von Walsegg, as a tribute to the passing of his young wife Anna.
This piece was unfinished at the time of Mozart's death. At the behest of his wife, Constanze Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's understudy Franz Xaver Süssmayr completed the missing parts.
The Requiem Mass was first performed on January 2, 1793, in a private concert for the benefit of Mozart's grieving wife.
The artwork: The Pietà by Michelangelo. A renaissance sculpture carved in Carrara marble. This famous work of art depicts the body of Jesus on the lap of his mother Mary after the Crucifixion. It balances the Renaissance ideals of classical beauty with naturalism.
The marks of the Crucifixion are limited to very small nail marks and an indication of the wound in Jesus' side, and his face does not reveal signs of the Passion. Michelangelo did not want his version of the Pietà to represent death, but rather to show the “religious vision of abandonment and a serene face of the Son.”
The artist: Sir Neville Marriner, The choir of the Academy Of St. Martin In The Fields
