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/Dec/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/Sep/2009
Although only one of his soloists is Italian — the mezzo Sonia Ganassi, who is ironically the least “verdiano” of the four principal...
Hugh Canning - 09/Mar/2008
Anyone wanting an “old-school” interpretation of the standard Süssmayr text
will find reassurance in Davis’s grand, portentous unfolding of Mozart’s
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