Europe's Chamber Orchestra and RIAS Chamber Choir, conductor Yannick Nézet-Seguin, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - CD Review, September 5th, 2026

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Requiem in D minor, K. 626, Great Mass in C minor, K. 427 (soloists: soprano Ying Fang, mezzo-soprano Emily D'Angelo, tenor Stanislas de Barbeyrac and bass Michael Volle).

Premiere album, released on June 26th

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Requiem in D minor, K. 626, Great Mass in C minor, K. 427 (soprano Ying Fang, mezzo-soprano Emily D'Angelo, tenor Stanislas de Barbeyrac and bass Michael Volle as soloists).

This album was released on June 26th by the Deutsche Grammophon record label and features two essentially works from the classical repertoire: the Requiem in D minor and the Great Mass, K. 427 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - concert recordings made in June 2026 at the Festspielhaus in Baden-Baden.

For these recordings, Yannick Nézet-Seguin, the famous conductor, led an exceptional cast and prestigious ensembles - the Chamber Orchestra of Europe and RIAS Chamber Choir of Berlin - along with soloists: soprano Ying Fang, mezzo-soprano Emily D'Angelo, tenor Stanislas de Barbeyrac and bass Michael Volle.

The programme is a reflection of Yannick Nézet-Seguin's deep affinity for Mozart's music as well as his determination to explore the drama, emotion and spiritual dimensions of these crucial vocal-symphonic scores. The Canadian conductor is offering an interpretative version of them, rich in details and carefully curated, tremendously contributing to this discography which is dedicated to the Mozartian repertoire. The recordings are of an extraordinary quality, in which the broad palette of tonal colors of the RIAS Chamber Choir in Berlin blends perfectly with the expressive, clear and well-articulated musical discourse provided by the Chamber Orchestra of Europe.