BaL 3.10.15 - Verdi: Requiem

[Roehre]

.... Solti, who had an amazing cast (Sutherland, Horne, Pavarotti and Talvela) and the best of Decca technology.....

that Solti and the quite recent BBCMM CD are the Verdi Requiems on my shelves.
That suffice.

[Petrushka]

The best live performance I've ever heard was on September 12 1997, dedicated in memoriam to Diana, Princess of Wales and Sir Georg Solti who should have conducted but died the week before. Sir Colin Davis conducted the LSO and the atmosphere was electric, like nothing I've ever experienced before or since in the concert hall. One of the most unforgettable Proms I've ever attended.

[Stanley Stewart]

The best live performance I've ever heard was on September 12 1997, dedicated in memoriam to Diana, Princess of Wales and Sir Georg Solti who should have conducted but died the week before. Sir Colin Davis conducted the LSO and the atmosphere was electric, like nothing I've ever experienced before or since in the concert hall. One of the most unforgettable Proms I've ever attended.

Indeed, I also have a recording of this memorable Prom, transferred from off-air video to DVD. Ironically, it also crossed my mind, yesterday, as I suddenly remembered the stricken expression on the face of Valerie Solti in a brief cut to her seated in the audience at the close of the performance. I'd been watching a first rate DVD Arthaus transfer of the William Walton 1982 London Concert, at the RFH, in an 80th birthday tribute by the Philharmonia Orchestra and Chorus/Andre Previn; Kyung-Wha Chung as violinist in the Concerto and Thomas Allen, soloist, in a rousing Belshazzar's Feast. Sir William was clearly frail seated in the ceremonial box but rose to acknowledge the standing ovation - rare at that time - as the tears filled his eyes. The humanity rather than the sentiment spoke volumes and I got the same heart-rending feeling when I see the brief glimpse of Lady Solti fifteen years later.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

The list of recordings can be found in Posts 1 & 2.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

There's also a Barbirolli import.

[LeMartinPecheur]

I love the high drama of the two Solti discs (best bass drum of all is on the VPO recording)

Petrushka: glad to hear that the Decca Solti is still tops in this respect. I was played it while working in a classical CD & hifi shop c1972 but only bought it (s/h LP set) a year or two ago.

After falling in love with that bass drum, imagine my disappointment when my first live performance (Oxford student choir, 1973) seemed to have been unable to afford a real one, and settled for an empty packing crate struck with a large hammer instead

IMHO the quality of the bass drum in performances and recordings should be stated in letters the same size as for names of star soloists

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Petrushka: glad to hear that the Decca Solti is still tops in this respect. I was played it while working in a classical CD & hifi shop c1972 but only bought it (s/h LP set) a year or two ago.

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I remember that bass drum when I first bought the Solti recording, back in 1971. I listened to it again and again, but noticed that Culshaw and Co. had made a much greater effort with the first appearance of the said drum thwacks than with the second and third. This is apparent on the CDs too.

[Beef Oven!]

What was the recommendation?

[Nick Armstrong]

What was the recommendation?

That all concerned await transmission of the programme next Saturday!!

[BBMmk2]

That all concerned await transmission of the programme next Saturday!!

Beefy's post sounds like one of mine! Not catching is it? BBMishitis?

[Beef Oven!]

That all concerned await transmission of the programme next Saturday!!

[Nick Armstrong]

Beefy's post sounds like one of mine! Not catching is it? BBMishitis?

I wash going to posht a shimilar shuggeshtion!

[Beef Oven!]

I wash going to posht a shimilar shuggeshtion!

it had crossed(my mind) too.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Honestly, CD Review is absent for a single week and we all turn to drink.

[BBMmk2]

Our sense of humour persists! :)