Toscanini Conducts Verdi: Two Sacred Works: Requiem Mass & Te Deum
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Edition: Music CDFormat: Original recording reissued
CD Release Date: 1999-01-19
Music Label: Music & Arts Program
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Requiem and Kyrie
- Dies Irae
- Offertorio
- Sanctus
- Agnus Dei
- Lux Aeterna
- Libera me
- Te Deum
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Free Music Review: terrific !!!
Hit: 5 Stars
This recording is one of the best of all Verdi - Requiem recs. Toscanini, who (I think) the greatest Verdi conductor and his NBC Symphony with Westminster Chorus, performed it so wonderful! It is sometime darkful, sometime very passionate, powerful, terrible... You can see all the drammatic perspective to death of Verdi. And you can easily impressed with this recording.
This is the 1940 (early) performance of Toscanini, and more succesful than his later 1951 rec. In that occasion, there is no weak link. By the way, the solo quartet group is really amazing. I think, the most amazing pne of all is (of course) Jussi Bj?rling. He is the best performer of "Ingemisco" section. In that movement, there is a heavenly, other-worldly happiness and hope. And Bj?rling is glorious there! Nicola Moscona is a really good basso-profondo, who sang "Confutatis" very drammatic, too. "Dies irae" which the most terrible movement of all Requiem and all "Dies irae" in the history (!), the orchestra and chorus performed it in a "shining" mood!! The blows of Gran Cassa has the same effect of blows of Hammer! In this section, you can feel the terror, pessimist atmosphere of "The Day of Judgement". And this is the motto section of Requiem, it is coming three times in whole work, and at all shattering, very impressive.
Te Deum, which the last movement of Quatro pezzi sacri, is a majestic music of Verdi. And once again, Toscanini is marvellous, he also worked on it with Verdi himself, already.
This is a must have for any music lovers and searchers for a gold rec. of Requiem.
Highly recommended.
Toscanini Conducts Verdi: Two Sacred Works: Requiem Mass & Te Deum Poster
The 1951 NBC broadcast Verdi Requiem approved by Toscanini for commercial release in the RCA/BMG Toscanini Collection (Vol.?63) is superseded by this broadcast from November 23, 1940, on both sonic and artistic grounds. Music & Arts' clear, well-focused sound (transferred, one suspects, from "inside" source material) captures the warmth and bottom often missing from the Maestro's harsher-sounding commercial discs. All of the vocal contributions, notwithstanding minor but glaring lapses from the soloists, surpass their later counterparts, especially the supple and well-rehearsed Westminster Choir. Moreover, Toscanini's broader tempi and greater flexibility allow text and music to coalesce in a manner few conductors have achieved, including Toscanini himself in subsequent performances. The present concert opened with a lovely performance of the Te Deum, a work the Maestro actually coached under the composer's approving eye. Excellent notes by Toscanini biographer Harvey Sachs round out this important release. --Jed DistlerClassical Music CDs
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