Verdi: Messa Da Requiem

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION
Conducting the brilliantly disposed Bavarian Radio Chorus and Symphony Orchestra, Mariss Jansons transforms the Golden Hall of Vienna's Musikverein into a heavenly anteroom. From the very fi rst, hushed measures, the orchestra 'once again impressively demonstrates its leading rank among the German orchestras' (Die Presse).

The four outstanding soloists fuse together to project a vast range of emotions, from whispered reverence to emotional upheavals. While Bulgarian soprano Krassimira Stoyanova has been closely associated with the Wiener Staatsoper for several years now, mezzo-soprano Marina Prudenskaya has been steadily building her international career, one major role after another. Albanian-born tenor Saimir Pirgu was chosen by Claudio Abbado at the young age of 22 to sing Ferrando in 'Cosi fan tutte.' Bulgarian bass Orlin Anastassov, meanwhile, has established himself as a superb Verdi singer.

Verdi's 'Messa da Requiem' is in itself a work of superlatives: a towering structure of blazing brass, mighty choral masses and tour-deforce passages for four soloists. A work of deepest and most heartfelt intimacy, a mass for the dead without any mawkish undertones, quite possibly the foremost achievement in 19th-century liturgical music.

Picture Format: 1080i High Definition 16:9 - please note this Blu-ray disc - BD is not compatible with standard DVD players
Sound Format: PCM Stereo Dolby Digital 5.1
Region Code: 0
Duration: 91 minutes
Recorded: live from the Golden Hall of Vienna's Musikverein 2013
Subtitles: English German French

REVIEW
This new interpretation is both exciting and moving. Its atmospherically filmed without encompassing the architectural tour of the venue and points intelligently to vocal and instrumental leads. GRAMOPHONE EDITORS CHOICE --Gramophone, Jan'15

All in all,a more than respectable Requiem. --BBC Music Magazine, Mar '15

Actors: Verdi, Jansons, Stoyanova, Prudenskaja

Audio Languages: English

Duration: 91 minutes

Number of Discs: 1

Subtitle Languages: English, German, French

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