Verdi - Requiem / Abbado, Gheorghiu, Barcellona, Alagna, Berlin Philharmonic

Rating:
Summary: A Glorious Requiem
Review: This DVD is sensational. Everyone involved from the performers to the camera and sound engineers have done a superlative job. I bought it because I love the voices of Angela Gheorghiu and Roberto Alagna. I have several other DVDs featuring these singers. I was unfamiliar with the other soloists but was very impressed with their excellent voices. The music is so moving it gives you goosebumps! One tiny criticism is that the dynamic range is so great that if you set the volume high enough to hear the opening pianissimo notes (and in one or two other places) the forte sections turn out to be a bit too loud for comfort. This is, however, a very minor complaint in what is otherwise a near-perfect DVD.