Best recoding of Mozart's Requiem

The version I really like is Directed by Matthias Bamert. I did audition a few version and found this one interresting. It can be found under Amati label (1991). album number:SR 9014/1.

The artists are: Lena Lootens (soprano), Margit Neubauer (Mezzo sprano), Martyn Hill(Tenor), Kurt Widmer (Bass-Bariton) and Edgar Krapp (orgean)...

I really like but can't say if it's the best version (I did not try them all)...

Regards

For CD versions full price I will go with recent Herreweghe
on Harmonia Mundi label, excellent recording with great emotional thrust. This is period instrument performance.

Nearly as good at bargain price level is the Hickox version on Virgin label (ultraviolet series)

Other versions are good: Gardiner, Schreier etc but my 1st choice remains Herreweghe.

The only problem with the Herrweghe recording is that the female voices in the Kyrie become very strident and difficult to listen to at times. Other than the sound issue the performance is one of the best I've heard but I have yet to hear the Schreier version. I became familiar with most of the other popular versions in my search for one that captures the emotion that this piece contains.

I, too, like the Schreier version -- although some voices let the performance down. Some of the older versions may be of interest: Klemperer is one, Bohm is another.
TO these ears, the Dies ire is one of the most difficult parts to satisfy...