Mozart’s Requiem is a work of enduring intensity, pulsing with shadow and ceremony. Its opening chords descend like heavy steps. But this is not music of despair; it’s full of movement and fire, epitomised by the Dies Irae which races forward with haunting fury. In the hands of Stephen Layton, one…

Mozart’s Requiem is a work of enduring intensity, pulsing with shadow and ceremony. Its opening chords descend like heavy steps. But this is not music of despair; it’s full of movement and fire, epitomised by the Dies Irae which races forward with haunting fury. In the hands of Stephen Layton, one…

Mozart’s Requiem is a work of enduring intensity, pulsing with shadow and ceremony. Its opening chords descend like heavy steps. But this is not music of despair; it’s full of movement and fire, epitomised by the Dies Irae which races forward with haunting fury. In the hands of Stephen Layton, one…

Mozart’s Requiem is a work of enduring intensity, pulsing with shadow and ceremony. Its opening chords descend like heavy steps. But this is not music of despair; it’s full of movement and fire, epitomised by the Dies Irae which races forward with haunting fury. In the hands of Stephen Layton, one…