This version of the much-recorded Requiem must be the most spiritual, reverential, and perhaps visionary yet to appear…. I have seldom heard such a sustained legato throughout the slow movements, such warm and seamless singing, such beautiful playing... And the spacious recording, with its very wide range of dynamics (including a rather too insistent bass drum), matches the breadth and scale of the singing and playing, with the correct perspectives where Verdi calls for them—listen right near the start to the care taken over every part of the texture in the unaccompanied "Te decet hymnus" or the shimmering violins at the start of "Lux aeterna