Verdi’s Requiem is a work of undeniably epic proportions, but more often than not (and thanks to the ubiquity of the Dies Irae in television and film)...
Stephen Pettitt - 07.02.2010
The catalogue isn’t exactly crying out for another Verdi Requiem, but Yuri Temirkanov’s mature and considered performance wears its own ch...
Charlotte Gardner - 21.12.2009
Verdi’s Messa da Requiem must be one of the greatest classical works of all time, so a new recording, conducted by such an artist as Antonio Pap...
Hugh Canning - 13.09.2009
Although only one of his soloists is Italian — the mezzo Sonia Ganassi, who is ironically the least “verdiano” of the four principal...