Verdi: Requiem and Quattro Pezzi Sacri
Leontyne Price (soprano), Rosalind Elias (mezzo-soprano), Jussi Björling (tenor), Giorgio Tozzi (bass), Yvonne Minton (mezzo-soprano)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Singverein der Gesellscaft der Musikfreunde, Wien, Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra and Master Chorale, Fritz Reiner, Zubin Mehta
Reiner's opening of the Requiem is very slow and atmospheric...Yet as the work proceeds the performance soon sparks into life, and there is some superb and memorable singing from a distinguished...
Verdi: Requiem and Quattro Pezzi Sacri
Leontyne Price (soprano), Rosalind Elias (mezzo-soprano), Jussi Björling (tenor), Giorgio Tozzi (bass), Yvonne Minton (mezzo-soprano)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Singverein der Gesellscaft der Musikfreunde, Wien, Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra and Master Chorale, Fritz Reiner, Zubin Mehta
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Reiner's opening of the Requiem is very slow and atmospheric...Yet as the work proceeds the performance soon sparks into life, and there is some superb and memorable singing from a distinguished...
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- Leontyne Price (soprano), Rosalind Elias (mezzo-soprano), Jussi Björling (tenor), Giorgio Tozzi (bass)
- Wiener Singverein, Wiener Philharmoniker
- Fritz Reiner
- Recorded: 1960-06
- Recording Venue: Sofiensaal, Vienna
- Yvonne Minton (mezzo-soprano)
- Los Angeles Master Chorale, Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra
- Zubin Mehta
- Recorded: 1970-04-14
- Recording Venue: Royce Hall, University Of California, Los Angeles (U.C.L.A.)
Awards and reviews
2010
Reiner's opening of the Requiem is very slow and atmospheric...Yet as the work proceeds the performance soon sparks into life, and there is some superb and memorable singing from a distinguished team of soloists. THe recording has a spectacularly wide dynamic range
