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Fantastic! A choral milestone! Bravo Mackerras!
My god, I have never heard such a performance in all my life!
Firstly, the completion solves almost all of the problems that have been bugging me about the Sussmayr completion. Levin develops the Hosanna and Amen fugues as if he had Wolfgang himself directing him! The orchestration is immaculate, the Sanctus, benedictus and agnus dei have all the kinks worked out, and the Cum sanctis tuis fugue has been retexted (properly!). I feel that Levin's version of the Amen fugue, which does not modulate, is the most authentic of all of them. His reason for the non-modulation is very well argued, and the effect is comparatively better than the Druce and Maunder versions. My one quibble with the completion is that, for me, the orchestration in the second part of the Domine Jesu, just before the fugue, is a little too conservative.

The chorus on this recording have the most amazing diction of all! Totally sweet when the phrases end in "s!" Mackerras' tempi are perfect, and the orchestra play with great technical mastery, but with an overall musicality that other renderings, that of Karajan among others, lack. the recording ends with a delightful rendering of the Adagio and Fugue in C Minor, K.546, which is a welcome conclusion to Mozart's tour de force of counterpoint.

My advice to you is this:
Scrap Sussmayer, get rid of Robbins-Landon, ditch Druce and maul Maunder!
B U Y T H I S R E C O R D I N G ! ! !
Do anything you can to get it!