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Music : Mozart - Requiem
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Mozart - Requiem from: Philips |
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0028942035324 Label: Philips Manufacturer: Philips Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Philips Release Date: July 01, 1998 Studio: Philips Sales Rank: 256580 Browse for similar items by category:
Editorial Review: Amazon.co.uk Review: What a work this is! All the fright, longing for peace and inevitability that come with thoughts of death and the hereafter, put together by Mozart, a man who really should have lived longer. But rather than dote on that thought, author Stephen Jay Gould, in his heavy, perceptive notes accompanying this release, suggests that, rather, we have on this CD "the most sublime swan song ever written". And this performance has all the dignity and pathos one could want. Helen Donath, Yvonne Minton, Ryland Davies, and Gerd Nienstedt are the fine soloists; and the orchestra and chorus are lucid, tender and passionate by turns. No CD collection should be without a Mozart Requiem, and this one is a gem. --Robert Levine Customer Reviews
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 Rating: - TO PRAISE DAVIS NOT TO BURY HIMThis disc has been on my cd-rack for a couple of years now. I happened to see some unfavourable comment on it, which surprised me as I had thought it rather good, but it deterred me from offering an opinion until I had something to compare it with other than my recollections of other performances. I have just obtained a recording by Giulini, partly to mark that great man's passing and partly to attend to this unfinished business. Giulini's account has few if any critics, but in the last analysis Davis is even better, I am now emboldened to say. I suppose it is mainly a matter of the recording. This is perhaps surprising, as Davis's dates from as far back as 1967, Giulini's from 11 years later. There's not a lot in it so far as the ... Read More: |
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