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Verdi: Requiem
RecommendedAnja Harteros (soprano), Elīna Garanča (mezzo), Jonas Kaufmann (tenor), René Pape (bass)
Orchestra e coro del Teatro alla Scala, Milan, Daniel Barenboim
Barenboim's interpretative view is grand in conception, with the La Scala performers offering him sufficient depth and richness of tone...the four soloists form a quartet finely balanced in... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 16th September 2013
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2013, Editor's Choice
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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Special offer. Verdi: Requiem
RecommendedAnja Harteros (soprano), Sonia Ganassi (mezzo), Rolando Villazon (tenor), René Pape (bass)
Orchestra dell’Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Coro dell’Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Antonio Pappano
Pappano's conducting maintains a firm control of his forces, showing a sense of drama that includes an awareness of the importance of some crucial moments of silence. Pappano's soloists are... — More…
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Building a Library, October 2015, First Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2009, Disc of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2010, Winner - Choral
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2010, Choral Award Winner
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Verdi: Messa Da Requiem
Jessye Norman (soprano), Agnes Baltsa (alto), Jose Carreras (tenor), Yevgeny Nesterenko (bass), Chor und Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Riccardo Muti
At 35 José Carreras was nearly in the prime bloom of his voice; he sings the “Ingemisco” with style and no signs of operatic excess. Baltsa is also memorable for her musical, totally sincere... — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Historical
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Verdi: Requiem
Erika Grimaldi (soprano), Daniela Barcellona (mezzo-soprano), Francesco Meli (tenor) & Michele Pertusi (baritone)
London Symphony Chorus & London Symphony Orchestra, Gianandrea Noseda
Michele Pertusi is exemplary, with a lovely legato quality…Erika Grimaldi is at her best when projecting the drama of the text…the LSO Chorus are superb throughout, as are the LSO themselves.... — More…
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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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Gramophone Awards, 1988, Winner - Choral
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Grammy Awards, 31st Awards (1988), Best Choral Performance
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Grammy Awards, 31st Awards (1988), Best Engineered Album, Classical
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Grammy Awards, 31st Awards (1988), Classical Album of the Year
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Verdi: Messa da Requiem
Krassimira Stoyanova (soprano), Marina Prudenskaja (mezzo), Charles Castronovo (tenor), Georg Zeppenfeld (bass)
Dresden Staatskapelle, Sächsischer Staatsopernchor Dresden, Christian Thielemann
We find Thielemann balancing the operatic and the ecclesiastical superbly, pacing Verdi’s score unerringly…while the conductor is superb in the more reflective passages of the work, he is no... — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Choral
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Verdi: Requiem & Quattro Pezzi Sacri
Luba Orgonasova, Anne Sofie von Otter, Luca Canonici, Alastair Miles, Donna Brown
Monteverdi Choir, Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, John Eliot Gardiner
Gardiner's Verdi Requiem is in a class of its own.
His are readings that combine a positive view and interpretative integrity from start to finish, something possible only in the context of... — More…Downloads
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Verdi: Requiem
RecommendedLeontyne Price, Dame Janet Baker, Veriano Luchetti, and José Van Dam
Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Georg Solti
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Grammy Awards, 20th Awards (1977), Best Choral Performance
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