Rating: - Verdi: Requiem
This is an excellent recording of an excellent performance of the famous REQUIEM by Verdi. The Dies Irae section is especially thrilling. Highly recommended.The "Four Sacred Pieces" is a fine added bonus, ... Read More
Rating: - An Energetic and highly Dramatic Verdi Requiem
Of all of Verdi's latter works, the Verdi requiem is perhaps my favorite after Otello. Although it was written as a Requiem mass, I find that Verdi's composition recalls something that sounds more operatic ... Read More
Rating: - One of two definitive Verdi Requiems
Including the DVD performance with von Karajan/La Scala, I own ten recordings of the Verdi Requiem. Putting the DVD performance aside for a moment, this recording and the Fritz Reiner on Decca Verdi: Requiem ... Read More
Rating: - DEATH, SALVATION, VERDI & SOLTI: HOW CAN YOU MISS?
I think the Verdi Requiem is the greatest Italian opera ever composed.
The old master managed to summon all his experience in the opera house and take the great themes of death, salvation, redemption and ... Read More
