BaL 3.10.15 - Verdi: Requiem

[vinteuil]

I bought the DG version of the Giulini set

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Ah right, thanks looks like its the EMI recording then!

... you are Walt Whitman, and I claim my ten dollars :

"I do not know it — it is without name — it is a word unsaid,
It is not in any dictionary, utterance, symbol.
Something it swings on more than the earth I swing on,
To it the creation is the friend whose embracing awakes me.
Perhaps I might tell more. Outlines! I plead for my brothers
and sisters.
Do you see O my brothers and sisters?
It is not chaos or death — it is form, union, plan — it is eternal
life — it is Happiness.
The past and present wilt — I have fill'd them, emptied them,
And proceed to fill my next fold of the future.
Listener up there! what have you to confide to me?
Look in my face while I snuff the sidle of evening,
(Talk honestly, no one else hears you, and I stay only a
minute longer.)

Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)"

[visualnickmos]

So which one has BBM actually bought......?

Solti/Sutherland et al, for me every time, but I do like Bernstein's - slagged off for bad acoustics - RAH recording. It certainly has 'muscle' which is what the piece requires. It's a big piece and needs a big performance...... and the acoustics of Bernstein's recording are not that bad..... not by any stretch of the imagination.

[underthecountertenor]

Well, IMO, the Pappano sounds cosily corporate.

Opinions aside (and I absolutely disagree with your apparent dismissal of the Pappano), what do you mean by this?

[BBMmk2]

So which one has BBM actually bought......?

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I bought the DG set

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I bought the DG set

[BBMmk2]

The EMI then? :)

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Look, Bbm - it's really very easy:

1) Have a look at the front cover of the recording of the Verdi Requiem conducted by Giulini that you bought last week.
2) Does it have the letters "EMI" in a red box (or a large white "W" in a blue box next to the words "Warner Classics") on this cover?
3) Does it also have any of these pictures on the cover:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B005FVFWHU

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B003YCRY6O

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00005AVMO

?
4) Is the orchestra the Philharmonia Orchestra, the choir the Philharmonia Chorus, and the soloists Eisabeth Schwarzkopf, Christa Ludwig, Nicolai Gedda, and Nicolai Ghiaurov?

If the answer to all these questions is "Yes", then you've bought the EMI version.

If, on the other hand,

1) The cover has a YELLOW box with the words "Deutsche Grammophon" in it
2) It looks like this:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0013816GK

3) the orchestra is the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, the choir is the Ernst Senff Chorus, and the soloists are Sharon Sweet, Florence Quivar, Vinson Cole, and Simon Estes ...

... then it's the DG recording.


I await with baited breath!

[Richard Tarleton]

This is like one of those keys for identifying wild flowers

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

ferney's carer writes:

I don't know what's been going on - but he's sobbing under a table, and I can't get him to come out for his medication!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VU3S14xVTnc

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Look, Bbm - it's really very easy:

1) Have a look at the front cover of the recording of the Verdi Requiem conducted by Giulini that you bought last week.
2) Does it have the letters "EMI" in a red box (or a large white "W" in a blue box next to the words "Warner Classics") on this cover?
3) Does it also have any of these pictures on the cover:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B005FVFWHU

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B003YCRY6O

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00005AVMO

?
4) Is the orchestra the Philharmonia Orchestra, the choir the Philharmonia Chorus, and the soloists Eisabeth Schwarzkopf, Christa Ludwig, Nicolai Gedda, and Nicolai Ghiaurov?

If the answer to all these questions is "Yes", then you've bought the EMI version.

If, on the other hand,

1) The cover has a YELLOW box with the words "Deutsche Grammophon" in it
2) It looks like this:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0013816GK

3) the orchestra is the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, the choir is the Ernst Senff Chorus, and the soloists are Sharon Sweet, Florence Quivar, Vinson Cole, and Simon Estes ...

... then it's the DG recording.


I await with baited breath!

You don't fancy doing the BaL lists do you?

[Nick Armstrong]

I'm so pleased I skipped this thread for a day or so and was able to read the Bbm saga at one go!!

Have you recovered, ferney?

I get the Fawlty analogy... (also: "Try to understand before one of us dies")

However in my mind's eye I pictured you like the chap in the top hat at 2m 10sec in this...

(or maybe even like the director, in the earlier bit! )

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

(Not in the face! NOT IN THE FACE!!!)

[gradus]

Best laugh of the day!

[Bryn]

... If, on the other hand,

1) The cover has a YELLOW box with the words "Deutsche Grammophon" in it
2) It looks like this:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0013816GK

3) the orchestra is the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, the choir is the Ernst Senff Chorus, and the soloists are Sharon Sweet, Florence Quivar, Vinson Cole, and Simon Estes ...

... then it's the DG recording.


I await with baited breath!

You're just adding to the confusion. The customer reviews on that page seem to relate to Fricsay's not Giulini's Verdi Requiem. All very strange.