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Verdi: Requiem - Quattro Pezzi Sacri

3/19/1998, 24 Tracks, 2:06:20

Featuring

  • Elena Filipova
  • Gloria Scalchi
  • César Hernández
  • Carlo Colombara
  • Pier Giorgio Morandi
  • Hungarian State Opera Orchestra
  • Hungarian State Opera Chorus
  • Giuseppe Verdi

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Critical Reception

Verdi's Requiem was criticized by some contemporaries, such as pianist Hans von Bülow, who scathingly called it "opera in church vestments."

Source: Booklet

Composition History

The Quattro pezzi sacri (Four Sacred Pieces) were written late in Verdi's life, with the Ave Maria having a curious origin as a solution to a musical puzzle.

Source: Booklet

Composer Biography

Giuseppe Verdi, a leading figure in Italian opera, was born in 1813 as the son of an innkeeper-cum-grocer and showed early musical ability.

Source: Booklet

Performer Biography

Soprano Elena Filipova, born in Bulgaria, gained international recognition by winning the Herbert von Karajan Competition in Salzburg.

Source: Booklet

Compositional Technique

Verdi's Requiem is intensely dramatic and includes music originally intended for his opera Don Carlo in the setting of the Lacrymosa.

Source: Booklet

Composition History

Verdi's Messa da Requiem was completed in 1874, prompted by the death of Italian poet and novelist Alessandro Manzoni, after an earlier composite Requiem for Rossini failed.

Source: Booklet

Performer Biography

Conductor Pier Giorgio Morandi, after graduating from the Milan Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory, was invited by Claudio Abbado to be principal oboist at La Scala.

Source: Booklet

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