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Verdi: Requiem
RecommendedBarbara Frittoli (soprano), Olga Borodina (mezzo), Mario Zeffiri (tenor), Ildar Abdrazakov (bass)
Chicago Symphony Chorus & Orchestra, Riccardo Muti
...much remains of the potency of [Muti's] classic 1979 recording...The Dies Irae, for instance, retains all his customary bite and fury...Frittoli's substantial soprano charts the emotions... — More…
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Grammy Awards, 53rd Awards (2010), Best Choral Performance
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Grammy Awards, 53rd Awards (2010), Classical Album of the Year
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The New York Times, Recordings of the Year 2017
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Riccardo Muti Conducts Italian Masterworks
Riccardo Zanellato (bass)
Chicago Symphony Chorus, Chicago Children's Choir, Riccardo Muti
Copper-toned brass and crisp, snappy string articulation make the overture to Nabucco levitate…The 150-strong Chicago Symphony Chorus makes fervent, sharply profiled contributions…Muti is a... — More…
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this recording does have the stupendous Chicago brass in its favour, and they really do crown the climaxes of the work magnificently — More…
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Verdi: Otello
Aleksandrs Antonenko (Otello), Krassimira Stoyanova (Desdemona), Carlo Guelfi (Iago), Barbara Di Castri (Emilia), Juan Francisco Gatell (Cassio), Michael Spyres (Roderigo), Paolo Battaglia (Montano), Eric Owens (Lodovico) & David Govertsen (Herald)
Chicago Symphony Orchestra & Chorus,...
tip-top precision from the Chicago Symphony Orchestra players. They reach a level of pristine excellence that any opera house orchestra- no matter how eminent- would struggle to equal...[Stoyanova's]... — More…
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Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique
Gérard Depardieu (narrator), Mario Zeffiri (tenor) & Kyle Ketelsen (bass-baritone)
Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Chorus, Riccardo Muti
Muti weighs up the musical contributions very neatly, never overpowering the intentionally slight nor attempting to tidy up [Lélio's] deliberately throwing six different pots of paint…at a single... — More…
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