Verdi - Requiem / Henri-Georges Clouzot · Herbert von Karajan - L. Price · Cossotto · Pavarotti

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Summary: Verdi Requiem
Review: This is a great recording folks!!!
Don't miss it.
But I wouldn't pay $250 for this.
You can get this recording at Tower REcords for 18 bucks.

Rating:
Summary: Astounding Verdi Requiem
Review: This is supreme music supremely achieved. I have always loved Karajan's work, his musical refinement and depth. Watching him on this video and listening to it, I understand him better now. He seems sometimes in ecstasy and in utter awe of what he is in the process of molding into the most superb artistic achievement, and never so much as when he is directing and listening to Leontyne Price. At these moments, he seems rapt in prayer at the unbeleivably gorgeous beauty and sublimity of her voice and performance. Seeing Price and Cossotto standing there and soaring away without sheet music in front of them is astonishing and proves the point that the best music making is done when the performer knows the work by heart. The gentlemen here are worthy collaborators in this unbelievable structuring of unqualifed greatness in solo and ensemble performance. Orchestra and chorus are on the mark of sheer beauty. This is a spine-tingling, both arms, back of the neck, chill-bump splendor. If you don't have this DVD, you need to go get it! Do your heart and soul a favor.

Rating:
Summary: Astounding Verdi Requiem
Review: This is supreme music supremely achieved. I have always loved Karajan's work, his musical refinement and depth. Watching him on this video and listening to it, I understand him better now. He seems sometimes in ecstasy and in utter awe of what he is in the process of molding into the most superb artistic achievement, and never so much as when he is directing and listening to Leontyne Price. At these moments, he seems rapt in prayer at the unbeleivably gorgeous beauty and sublimity of her voice and performance. Seeing Price and Cossotto standing there and soaring away without sheet music in front of them is astonishing and proves the point that the best music making is done when the performer knows the work by heart. The gentlemen here are worthy collaborators in this unbelievable structuring of unqualifed greatness in solo and ensemble performance. Orchestra and chorus are on the mark of sheer beauty. This is a spine-tingling, both arms, back of the neck, chill-bump splendor. If you don't have this DVD, you need to go get it! Do your heart and soul a favor.

Rating:
Summary: Buy it immediatelly
Review: This show can be described as one of the most important moments in history of music. Maestro Verdi would REALLY be very proud.
I must confess that i bought this REquiem because i'm a huge pavarotti fan. But, what a great surprise!!! We all know the great singers that Ghiaurov, Cossoto and Price are, but they are even better than one could expect. They sing near perfection! Pavarotti is just a detail if you compare to the other solists. Ghiaurov is really a GOD! Cossoto is MUCH, MUCH better than i though she would be singing the Requiem. I'm not saying that i thought she would be inaddequate singing the Requiem, my point is that she is outstanding! Any compliment i use would not be enough to express her majesty! And Price, oh my god...! Price is unbelievebly great!!! The concert was recorded in 1967, and it's astonishing how the quality is so good! The whole DVD is really amazing. I couldn't be more satisfied. karajan did a terrific job too ! The orchestra and chorus are fantastic! It's really hard to imagine a better recording of the great Verdi Requiem.
BUY IT IMMEDIATELLY!!!!