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Verdi’s Requiem

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Adiel

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Wow, what a masterpiece.
Verdi is one of my favorite composers; lots of great music, lots of ideas, lots of knowledge. His operas are standing together with the best of Wagner, different approach though.
His Requiem is a super unique piece in which all comes together: drama, operatic singing, explosions, silences. After you hear his requiem, even if it’s after 200 times you’ve done so, you feel you’ve been in an another sphere, spiritual.
There are many performance worth mentioning but the one I would pick as one of the bests is Pappano’s. Such an amazing recording, singing and conducting.

What is your favorite performance?

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Verdi's most coherent opera!

There was a terrific performance at Symphony Hall about 4 years ago, with Edward Gardner conducting. The soloists were fine... but it was the superbly drilled CBSO Chorus which made the evening so memorable.

After that hearing it is one of those works which for me really needs live performance; but my recording is the Muti one on EMI with the Philharmonia. Pretty good... not the same, though.
 
The Pappano is an interesting choice! I found the dynamic range and levels very challenging- it seems unusually quiet in places. My favourite is my first love,

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-it comes with its own technical problems- they overloaded the tape and the choral tutti are distorted but oh my, that cast of singers and Giulini’s spiritual view of the score.

Byshkov too,

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A solid all rounder, performance and stellar SQ,

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Shaw has a fascinating link to Verdi. Both Shaw and Verdi knew Toscanini.
 
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TheDecameron said:
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-it comes with its own technical problems- they overloaded the tape and the choral tutti are distorted but oh my, that cast of singers and Giulini’s spiritual view of the score.
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Funny you should say that, I bought this version some years ago and found some distortion - I was thinking of returning it but never got round to it. A little while later I changed my Sony CD player for a Quad 99CDP and the distortion disappeared. It is recorded to a very high level though, none of my other discs gave any trouble on the Sony.
 
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Barrymagrec said:
Funny you should say that, I bought this version some years ago and found some distortion - I was thinking of returning it but never got round to it. A little while later I changed my Sony CD player for a Quad 99CDP and the distortion disappeared. It is recorded to a very high level though, none of my other discs gave any trouble on the Sony.
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You’re lucky Barry, I bought the CD thinking they would have remastered it but it had the same affliction. In fact years previously I bought a second vinyl set thinking the first one (s/h) had been clobbered by a mistracking cartridge doing a Boris Johnson/ shopping trolly in the heavily modulated grooves, alas no improvement- the second copy owner’s cartridge had sandpapered the L channel! even though the vinyl looked pristine.
I saw Amazon were selling some kind of ‘enhanced’ version but CMG has been replaced by Des O’Conner,
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I have the Guilini CD. CD 2 is printed correctly, but has the same tracks as CD1! So I've never heard the ending or the 4 Sacred Pieces.
 
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