Mr. Levin is probably best known to Mozart fanciers as a fortepianist able to improvise elaborate, stylistically faithful cadenzas to the piano concertos. He is a fleet pianist and an insightful Mozartean. His performances brim over with ebullience, sometimes to a fault; his playing can seem showy and egocentric... But completing the Mozart Requiem is no job for a pussyfooter. Mr. Levin is willing to stack his fugal writing alongside the masters and take the consequences, which in this case are mostly happy... Where Sussmayrs strings play in symmetrical, stolid patterns, Mr. Levin gives the violins flight with melodic twists and swirls. This added intricacy folds beautifully into the larger textures, and ironically, Mr. Levins varied string figurations distract less from Mozarts choral writing than do Sussmayrs plodding patterns. nytimes/1995/11/26/arts/recordings-view-no-reverence-no-reticence-in-finishing-mozart-s-requiem.html
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