…Berlioz's Requiem… is for the most part a work of almost austere beauty and quiet contemplation, in which (a few truly apocalyptic moments aside) the outsize orchestral forces are deployed more to support sonorous pianissimos than simply to raise the roof. Not that Sylvain Cambreling doesn't relish every uniquely Berliozian effect... Meanwhile, his control of long-term tempo and tension is masterly. But what really makes this version special is the virtuosic contribution of the EuropaChorAkademie, a group of young professional singers drawn from all over Europe... under the inspired direction of Joshard Daus. ...they display a truly breathtaking purity of intonation, rhythmic precision and collective engagement, as resonantly full-toned in the soft a cappella fugato of the 'Quaerens Me' as in the thundering eruptions of the Dies Irae.