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Music : Verdi: Requiem; Quattro pezzi sacriIn association with Amazon.comfrom: Decca  List Price: $23.98 Amazon.com's Price: $21.99 You Save: $1.99 ( 8%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: Audio CDEAN: 0028947577355 Format: Original recording remastered Label: Decca Manufacturer: Decca Number Of Discs: 2 Publisher: Decca Release Date: October 10, 2006 Studio: Decca Sales Rank: 19699 MPN: 000710602 Disc 1:
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 Rating: - Verdi: RequiemThis 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, especially the "Te Deum". Rating: - An Energetic and highly Dramatic Verdi RequiemOf 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 than parochial, and for this reason, I don't think that it should be treated merely as a church piece. Rather, it should be seen a piece that combines both the elements of the sacred and secular emotions. This recording, one of Decca's most prestigious achievements in the studio, clearly ranks ... Read More Rating: - One of two definitive Verdi RequiemsIncluding 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 are the two that I pull out most frequently. I am biased in that I grew up with this recording which my mother bought after she sang the piece in college in the mid 1960s. Since these two are my favorites, I will compare and contrast. The appropriateness of having Sutherland as the ... 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 forgiveness and weave them into a stunning theatrical experience! (This is definitely not music for a liturgy.) A fantastic performance! Sutherland, freed from the constraints of her husband's boring conducting. Pavarotti, still young and making music instead of doing a "celebrity gig". Horne ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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