MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: VERDI: Requiem (coupled with Bruckner's te Deum)

"If you are an adherent of Karajan's Verdi, you will certainly enjoy this performance. It has all the characteristics of measured tempos and forceful attack that one expects from him...Ludwig is satisfying in every way. So is Ghiaurov in perhaps the most authoritative of his four recordings of the piece. Cossutta is Italianate, although sometimes a trifle throaty. Freni, then making her way into heavier repertory, sings with fine line and sincere feeling throughout. Chorus and orchestra are responsive to every one of Karajan's detailed wishes." Gramophone