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BBC Proms 2008 BBC Symphony Orchestra Verdi Requiem

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Prom 61: Verdi's Requiem Recorded in MP2 this time with no transcoding and a Mozart String Quartet thrown in for good measure and to afford some balance...................


Date Sunday 31 August 2008

In May 1875 London experienced the first British performance of Verdi's Requiem - in the Royal Albert Hall, with Verdi conducting. The reception was tumultuous and the press reviews spoke of the work in the same breath as of Mozart's hallowed Requiem.

Written in memory of the great Italian writer Alessandro Manzoni, Verdi's Mass for the dead - a work controversially composed by an atheist - has become as popular as his operas. The composer regarded it is as one of his greatest achievements: 'I feel as if I have become a serious citizen, and am no longer the public's clown.'

A stellar international line-up of soloists and massed choirs join the BBC Symphony Orchestra and its Chief Conductor Ji?í B?lohlávek for a work vividly coloured by Verdi's dramatic instinct.

Verdi Requiem (85 mins)
There will be no interval

Violeta Urmana soprano
Michelle DeYoung mezzo-soprano
Joseph Calleja tenor
Ildebrando d'Arcangelo bass

BBC Symphony Chorus
Crouch End Festival Chorus
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Ji?í B?lohlávek conductor

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