Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Messa da Requiem: Requiem
2. Messa da Requiem: Dies irae
3. Messa da Requiem: Tuba mirum
4. Messa da Requiem: Liber scriptus
5. Messa da Requiem: Quid sum miser
6. Messa da Requiem: Rex tremendae majestatis
7. Messa da Requiem: Recordare
8. Messa da Requiem: Ingemisco
9. Messa da Requiem: Confutatis
10. Messa da Requiem: Lacrimosa
11. Messa da Requiem: Offertorio
12. Messa da Requiem: Hostias

Disc 2:

1. Messa da Requiem: Sanctus
2. Messa da Requiem: Agnus Dei
3. Messa da Requiem: Lux aeterna
4. Messa da Requiem: Libera Me
5. Messa da Requiem: Dies irae
6. Messa da Requiem: Requiem aeternam
7. Messa da Requiem: Libera me
8. Quattro pezzi sacri: I Ave Maria
9. Quattro pezzi sacri: II Stabat mater
10. Quattro pezzi sacri: III Laudi alla Vergine Maria
11. Quattro pezzi sacri: IV Te Deum

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #111596 in Music
• Released on: 1995-11-14
• Number of discs: 2

Customer Reviews

Wow! The most religious experience you could ever expect.
Leontyne Price is a gift from the heavens. I agree with the former Washington Post reviewer, Paul Hume: "She has no equals. Few come close." Both Ms. Price and Reiner triumph in what has to be the most remarkable reading of the Requiem. The emotionality and intelligence of their combined performances is so spellbinding and gratifying, that I am left breathless by the finish line. Bjorling, Elias and Tozzi are also at the top of their form. It is a shame that wherever they recorded it, they could not get a more immediate sound. It seems as if it is all coming to us from just a little too far off.
From the very beginning, we are on a journey that exhausts us in its intensity. How I wish I could have heard Ms. Price live. If by chance she should read this, I cannot express enough in words what I feel about her.
Even if you favor other recordings of this work, this one comes inexpensively, so add it to your library and give it at least three listens. I believe you will be converted.

buy it for the solo quartet
The solo quartet of Price, Elias, Bjorling, and Tozzi holds
up against all the competition. In particular, Bjorling's
Ingemsico and Hostias are unmatched anywhere. The price is right. Disregard "crippled by conducting". This was the great
tenors' last commercial recording and he is definitely in top form.

PRICE EXCELS IN VERDI'S REQUIEM
I never tire of hearing Verdi's "Requiem" and this is the performance I prefer above all others. Originally released on RCA, it is now, for some unexplained reason, on the London Jubilee label. The sound has been remastered beautifully. All 4 solists are tops: In 1970, the year of the original release, there was certainly no finer Verdi soprano around than Leontyne Price and she is in excellent voice. Her tenor is my personal favorite, Jussi Bjorling. The mezzo is one of the Metropolitan Opera stalwarts, Rosalind Elias and Giorgio Tozzi is the bass. Fritz Reiner ably conducts the Vienna Philharmonic: The orchestral dynamics in this recording are really wonderful. Altogether a superb recording, made even more attractive by the addition of Verdi's "4 Sacred Pieces" with Zubin Mehta conducting the L.A. Philharmonic and contralto soloist, Yvonne Minton. It is at a bargain price (2 CD's for the price of 1)so even if you already own a "Requiem" you love, this set is inexpensive enough to buy it too. You'll be happy you did.