Verdi - Messa di Requiem
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Label: Warner
Cat No: 6989362
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 2
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 7th September 2009
Contents
Artists
Anja HarterosSonia Ganassi
Rolando Villazon
Rene Pape
Orchestra e Coro dell’Accademia di Santa Cecilia
Conductor
Antonio PappanoWorks
Requiem (Messa da Requiem)Artists
Anja HarterosSonia Ganassi
Rolando Villazon
Rene Pape
Orchestra e Coro dell’Accademia di Santa Cecilia
Conductor
Antonio PappanoAbout
Reviewing one of the performances, Hugh Canning wrote in The Sunday Times, “To hear Italians in this great music is nearly always a special treat. It is in their blood, and their native empathy, combined with the discipline of Pappano’s American and northern European training, made for a gripping occasion, a performance of enthralling beauty and visceral thrills.” Mya Tannenbaum of the Corriere della Sera said, “It was certainly an unforgettable emotional journey. … Pappano was more emotional than ever but controlled, a great master of contrasts and silences.”
In the words of Antonio Pappano, himself born to Italian parents, “this is a Requiem written by an Italian and I think Italians’ relationship to religion is explosive, full of temperament, full of fear. …. And the spectre of being punished, of sins – it sounds like an opera I’m describing. …I love doing this piece here in Rome with an Italian chorus and an Italian orchestra, and they have an innate sense of what this music is about, how to bring it to life. They really know what the words mean. They have lived what it is to be religious or spiritual in Italy.”
Giuseppe Verdi composed the requiem to commemorate the life of the great Italian novelist, poet and statesman Alessandro Manzoni. Verdi revered him and, with the rest of Italy, was disconsolate when the writer died in May 1873. The composer started with a slightly altered version of the 'Libera me' score that he had previously contributed to a mass honouring Rossini, of which different sections had been assigned to various composers. The Messa per Rossini, however, was never performed. Verdi retrieved the 'Libera me' and proceeded to compose the six remaining sections to complete the requiem for Manzoni. The composer conducted the premiere on the anniversary of Manzoni’s death, in the same church where his state funeral had taken place.
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