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Verdi: Messa da Requiem

Carlo Maria Giulini

Classical - Released January 1, 1964 | Warner Classics

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Verdi: Messa da Requiem

Mirella Freni

Classical - Released September 1, 1972 | Deutsche Grammophon (DG)

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Verdi : Messa da Requiem

Lorin Maazel

Masses, Passions, Requiems - Released March 27, 2015 | Sony Classical

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This recording is a product of Lorin Maazel's brief tenure as chief conductor of the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra at the end of his life, and it may have been his last recording. Certainly a point in its favor is the willingness of an aging conductor to seek out new interpretive ideas in late life. Whether it entirely holds together may be a matter of taste, but it doesn't sound like any other example among the vast catalog of Verdi Requiem recordings, and there's much to like. Briefly, Maazel attempts to forge a reading that offers lows to match the work's big highs like the mighty Dies Irae and its timpani strokes, which are given at full power and full speed. Does that gather power after the quiet, almost imperceptible opening of the work (which, to be fair, will give a good opportunity to show off an expensive audio setup)? Maybe, but Maazel's tempi are often idiosyncratically slow, and it's hard to detect a real arc in the work. Then again, the work of all four soloists, especially soprano Anja Harteros, is very strong, and they make an impressive effort to fill the large spaces Maazel lays out. The live recording from Gasteig Munich is also clear in a work that is notoriously difficult to capture in live performance. Perhaps it is a recording that will yield more information to repeated hearings.© TiVo
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Verdi : Messa da Requiem (Live, 1958)

Herbert von Karajan

Masses, Passions, Requiems - Released March 29, 2019 | Les Indispensables de Diapason

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Verdi: Messa da Requiem

Mariss Jansons

Classical - Released November 4, 2014 | BR-Klassik

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Verdi: Messa da Requiem

Roberto Alagna

Classical - Released September 15, 2001 | Warner Classics

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Verdi: Requiem

Anja Harteros

Classical - Released January 1, 2013 | Decca Music Group Ltd.

The early 2010s have seen a profusion of good performances and recordings of Verdi's Requiem mass. This may be because the work offers operatic singers and conductors a chance to strut their stuff in a one-shot deal, without the expense of mounting an entire operatic production. Whatever the explanation, the situation is a boon for listeners, and the present album takes its place among the very best. The Requiem is the towering work of sacred music in the late 19th century, full of social resonances that are explored in the booklet of this release with conductor Daniel Barenboim leading the Orchestra and Chorus of the La Scala Theatre. The soloists range from excellent to spectacular, with the liquid phrasing of tenor Jonas Kaufmann in the Ingemisco (CD 1, track 8) and the smoky tone of mezzo soprano Elina Garanca throughout as special standouts. But it is the masterly choral work from Barenboim, the La Scala choristers, and chorus master Bruno Casoni that really sets this recording apart. Listen to the mighty Dies irae, with the orchestra brasses slashing through the texture in perfectly executed fanfares of doom, where Barenboim gets the choir to deliver perfectly controlled little shouts at the phrase ends. It's nothing short of thrilling, and that's the word for this release throughout. The sound, with the choir and musicians on their home ground at La Scala, is equally exciting.© TiVo
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Arturo Toscanini conducts Verdi (Traviata, Ballo in maschera, Aida, Otello, Falstaff, Requiem...)

Arturo Toscanini

Classical - Released December 2, 2005 | RCA Red Seal

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Verdi: Requiem

London Symphony Orchestra

Classical - Released April 7, 2017 | LSO Live

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Performances of Giuseppe Verdi's sacred music fall along a spectrum between two extremes: it may be treated as opera with a slight alteration in subject matter, or as informed by the long tradition of sacred music, Italian and otherwise. This live performance by the London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus under Gianandrea Noseda falls just about as far as can be toward the former end of the spectrum. This is a blood-and-guts requiem mass, with big contrasts in dynamics, a substantial choir, and soloists pushed to the edge in order to fill the big musical spaces that result. Plunge in and sample the main "Dies irae" material, which is just this side of being over the top, but never loses control. The LSO brasses acquit themselves heroically here, perhaps because the choir has shone so brightly in the opening "Requiem" and "Kyrie," rising from almost imperceptible sound at the beginning in a mighty crescendo. The soloists, all of them Italian, give out a heroic sound, meeting the needs of the interpretation rather than of their own inner trajectory. Possibly the biggest stars of all here are the LSO's sound engineers, working at the Barbican, whose Super Audio sound is exemplary. They get the uncommonly wide dynamic range of Noseda's performance; they get the music's silences; they get absolute clarity in the textures. And they get the excitement of live performance even with all that. For those after a blood-and-guts Verdi Requiem, this is now a recording of choice. © TiVo
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Verdi: Requiem

Maria Agresta

Classical - Released March 25, 2022 | Verbier Festival Gold

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Verdi: Messa da Requiem (Live)

Dinara Alieva

Classical - Released October 19, 2018 | Delos

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Verdi: Messa da Requiem

Various Artists

Classical - Released July 30, 1990 | CSO Resound

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This release by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra is taken from a trio of live performances on successive days in January 2009. It has met with both critical and commercial success, and for good reason. Verdi's Messa da Requiem, finished in 1873 and dedicated to the memory of writer Alessandro Manzoni, is one of the most difficult works in the entire classical repertory to perform. It's not that any individual aspect is so challenging, but the work requires top-flight soloists, choir, and orchestra, as well as a conductor who can keep it all together. This recording delivers on nearly all counts, and at many points the effect is thrilling. Conductor Riccardo Muti likely cemented his position at the helm of the Chicago Symphony with his skillful handling of the orchestra's fabled brass section, deployed in vivid contrast between loud and soft that never lose their precision. The mighty Dies Irae has very rarely had the blast-furnace intensity that it does here, with the superb Chicago Symphony Chorus delivering great power without any deviation from the pitch. If there's a less compelling aspect here, it's the set of soloists, who are fine but not in the Pavarotti or Sutherland class. Still, they're all capable of carrying Muti's long lines in the slower sections, and, when you factor in the fine, clear Super Audio sound from the symphony's own CSO-Resound label, this becomes a very hard Verdi Requiem to beat. © TiVo
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Verdi: Requiem / 4 Sacred Pieces

Dame Joan Sutherland

Classical - Released February 5, 2001 | Decca Music Group Ltd.

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Verdi: Messa da Requiem

Riccardo Muti

Classical - Released July 30, 1990 | Warner Classics

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Verdi: Requiem & Operatic Choruses

Robert Shaw

Classical - Released November 24, 1987 | Telarc

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Giuseppe Verdi : Requiem

Antonio Pappano

Classical - Released September 7, 2009 | Warner Classics

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Verdi: Quattro Pezzi Sacri

Gijs Leenaars

Classical - Released March 18, 2022 | Sony Classical - Sony Music

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Verdi: Requiem

Nikolaus Harnoncourt

Classical - Released August 30, 2005 | RCA Red Seal

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In the interest of delivering a historically informed performance of Giuseppe Verdi's Requiem, and in fairness to the composer's often misunderstood wishes, Nikolaus Harnoncourt has taken pains to study the history of the work and follow the autograph score to make this live 2004 recording as authentic as possible. Through the use of appropriate instrumentation, the elimination of unnecessary portamento, a thorough rethinking of Verdi's use of dynamics, a reduction of the chorus to four voices per part where explicitly indicated, and observation of the original break between the Dies Irae and the Offertorium, Harnoncourt presents a version of the Requiem trimmed of "operatic" accretions and late-Romantic excesses, and restores the work to its intended state as sacred church music. Harnoncourt, the Vienna Philharmonic, and the Arnold Schoenberg Choir are meticulous, reverent, and restrained for the most part, yet impressive where required, particularly in the thundering passages of the Dies Irae; and soprano Eva Mei, mezzo-soprano Bernarda Fink, tenor Michael Schade, and bass Ildebrando d'Arcangelo, while still powerful in effect, sing with accuracy and take few expressive liberties. This hybrid SACD offers exceptionally clear and vibrant sound quality, and the dimensions of the multichannel recording are quite realistic.© TiVo
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Verdi: Requiem/Quattro Pezzi Sacri

Leontyne Price

Classical - Released January 1, 2000 | Decca Music Group Ltd.

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Verdi: Requiem

Leonard Bernstein

Classical - Released July 23, 1996 | Sony Classical