Verdi: Requiem (recorded in 2012) BLU-RAY

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GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: Requiem (recorded in 2012) BLU-RAY
Anja Harteros, Elina Garanca, Jonas Kaufmann, Rene Pape / Orchestra e coro del Teatro alla Scala, Milan, Daniel Barenboim

[ Decca Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc ]

Release Date: Wednesday 20 May 2015

This item is only available to us via Special Import.

A Verdi Requiem with a dream line-up of soloists and the forces of La Scala, Milan, directed by one of the greatest maestros of our time

With acclaimed performances at the Lucerne and Salzburg Festivals, Daniel Barenboim and his magnificent partners recorded this masterpiece around a live performance at La Scala, Milan, in 2012. A superb quartet of soloists - Jonas Kaufmann, Anja Harteros, Elina Garanca and René Pape - stamp their authority on this terrific performance.

This marks the first audio recording by Barenboim in his role as La Scala's Music Director.

"The magnificent full-throated chorus project in a manner liable to rip off the La Scala roof. And the soloists too trail opera glory...Barenboim, meanwhile, does everything to encourage bold attack from players and singers; even his pauses tremble. All told, it's a thrilling account." The Times, 13th September 2013 ****

"It's a thoughtful, considered interpretation that places the emphasis not so much on the terrors of divine judgment as on mankind's suffering in the face of the unknown...the end result makes up in compassion for what it sometimes lacks in visceral excitement." The Guardian, 10th October 2013

"an optimum line-up of soloists for our time...Garanca's lush mezzo sounds like an Amneris in waiting in the Lux aeterna; Pape is a rock in the bass soloist's pronouncements...I wouldn't want to be without Kaufmann's searing Ingemisco and moving, introverted Hostias" Sunday Times, 22nd September 2013

"this performance, exciting and occasionally thrilling though it is, is not remotely Italian...It's a 'through-composed' linked-up performance, paced withy a dramatic curve that makes even the punchiest Italian-led ones...feel like number opera...The non-Italian soloists are in good fearless voice and aurally well integrated into this concept" Gramophone Magazine, November 2013

"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 vocal weight and proficiency...this is an impressive account." BBC Music Magazine, Christmas Issue 2013 ****

Tracks:

1.Verdi Requiem: Opening & Applause
2.1a. Requiem
3.1b. Kyrie Eleison
4.2a. Dies Irae
5.2b. Tuba Mirum
6.2c. Mors Stupebit
7.2d. Liber Scriptus
8.2e. Quid Sum Miser
9.2f. Rex Tremendae
10.2g. Recordare
11.2h. Ingemisco
12.2i. Confutatis
13.2j. Lacrymosa
14.3a. Offertorium - Domine, Jesu Christe
15.3b. Offertorium - Hostias
16.4. Sanctus
17.5. Agnus Dei
18.6. Lux Aeterna
19.7a. Libera Me - Libera Me
20.7b. Libera Me - Dies Irae
21.7c. Libera Me - Requiem Aeternam
22.7d. Libera Me - Libera Me
23.Verdi Requiem: Applause & Credits