The Legacy of Mozart's 'Requiem' [30min]

Commissioned to write it in 1791, Mozart died before he completed his Requiem. On Mozart's 250th birthday, John Suchet looks at Mozart's musical legacy, focusing on the last work that Mozart wrote in a particular musical genre. Suchet asks the experts in what way these works are great pieces of music, and how they've gone on to influence the music that has come after them.