Ever since his brilliant first appearance in Munich with the Requiem, he is still a regular guest at the BR. Riccardo Muti is currently regarded as a mature representative of the great Italian tradition. This CD release therefore has to be seen as a “classically polished gem” – a gem that shines and flashes as beautifully and as brilliantly as ever!
The Munich performances of Verdi’s Messa da Requiem in October 1981 with Jessye Norman, Agnes Baltsa, Jos’e Carreras and Yevgeny Nesterenko, the Bavarian Radio Chorus, and the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks conducted by Riccardo Muti were concert events that have hardly been equaled since, let alone surpassed – so powerful were the chorus and orchestra, so strictly did the maestro keep his eye on the interpretation, and so superb were the renowned soloists – singers of international renown who gave their all to achieve the best possible result. And they all succeeded brilliantly.
Finally – four decades later – BR-Klassik can now release this absolute pinnacle in the performance history of Verdi’s Messa da Requiem. The audience was spellbound and totally captivated, and there was glowing praise from the critics: the powerful work, they said, had hardly ever been heard like this on this side of the Alps; Riccardo Muti had demonstrated how Verdi’s Requiem should sound; this performance of Verdi’s requiem mass was authentic, frightening, tender and terrifying, providing a timid yet hopeful glimpse of transcendence. Wolf-Dieter Peter, a reviewer for the “Mittelbayrische Zeitung” in Regensburg, was there at the time and reported how the extra trumpets positioned in the gallery of the Herkulessaal “blasted a glistening jet of metallic sound across the stalls, almost as if from the afterlife”. It was something, he said, that had “never been seen, heard or experienced like this before… simply unforgettable”.
Tracklist: 01. Verdi: Messa da Requiem: I. Introit – Kyrie (Live)
02. Verdi: Messa da Requiem: IIa. Sequence. Dies irae (Live)
03. Verdi: Messa da Requiem: IIb. Sequence. Tuba mirum – IIc. Sequence. Mors stupebit (Live)
04. Verdi: Messa da Requiem: IId. Sequence. Liber scriptus (Live)
05. Verdi: Messa da Requiem: IIe. Sequence. Quid sum miser (Live)
06. Verdi: Messa da Requiem: IIf. Sequence. Rex tremendae (Live)
07. Verdi: Messa da Requiem: IIg. Sequence. Recordare (Live)
08. Verdi: Messa da Requiem: IIh. Sequence. Ingemisco (Live)
09. Verdi: Messa da Requiem: IIi. Sequence. Confutatis (Live)
10. Verdi: Messa da Requiem: IIj. Sequence. Lacrimosa (Live)
11. Verdi: Messa da Requiem: IIIa. Offertory. Domine Jesu Christe (Live)
12. Verdi: Messa da Requiem: IIIb. Offertory. Hostias (Live)
13. Verdi: Messa da Requiem: IV. Sanctus (Live)
14. Verdi: Messa da Requiem: V. Agnus Dei (Live)
15. Verdi: Messa da Requiem: VI. Communion. Lux aeterna (Live)
16. Verdi: Messa da Requiem: VII. Libera me (Live)
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