Verdi - Requiem | Audite AUDITE23415

Verdi - Requiem

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Label: Audite

Cat No: AUDITE23415

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 2

Genre: Vocal/Choral

Release Date: 28th April 2008

Contents

Artists

Margarete Klose (mezzo-soprano)
Hilde Zadek (soprano)
Helge Rosvaenge (tenor)
Boris Christoff (bass)
Wiener Philharmoniker
Singverein der Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde Wien

Conductor

Herbert von Karajan

Works

Verdi, Giuseppe

Requiem (Messa da Requiem)

Artists

Margarete Klose (mezzo-soprano)
Hilde Zadek (soprano)
Helge Rosvaenge (tenor)
Boris Christoff (bass)
Wiener Philharmoniker
Singverein der Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde Wien

Conductor

Herbert von Karajan

About

Karajan‘s first recording of the Verdi Requiem was made at a time when he was laboriously rebuilding his career. It harbours not only echoes of the war but the uncertainties of the post-war period. Nevertheless, the expressive power and spontaneity of the performance reveal a conductor who commands his audience no less than his orchestra.

This live recording was made in 1949 at the Salzburg Festival with outstanding singers of the time: a very young Hilde Zadek, recently hired by the Vienna State Opera; Margarete Klose, a singer equally admired by Furtwängler; Helge Rosvaenge, the busiest tenor of the period; and the great Boris Christoff.

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