Requiem (recorded live in 1983)
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Requiem (recorded live in 1983)
Margaret Price / Livia Budai / Giuseppe Giacomini / Robert Lloyd/ London Philharmonic Orchestra & Choir / Jesús López-Cobos
[ LPO Live / 2 CD ]
Release Date: Monday 6 December 2010
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"...one of those performances which achieves memorability through the happy conjunction of its several parts...Both orchestra and choir acquit themselves with distinction and the soloists work well, both individually and as a team. The two British singers Margaret Price and Robert Lloyd are in exceptional form."
(Gramophone)
"Price's gleaming, angelic tone is ravishing...Her colleagues, including Giuseppe Giacomini, would be luxury casting today. Jesus Lopez-Cobos conducts a splendidly dramatic account of the score and the LPO Choir raise the roof."
(Sunday Times)
"[Price's] gleaming purity of tone in the upper register produces some treasurable moments, not just when soaring over the rest of the forces to nail peaks of dramatic intensity but also as a formidable linchpin with the emotional landscape of ensembles...The chorus, a thrillingly responsive and alert corporate body, encompasses power and sensitivity"
(International Record Review)
"The heroes are the London Philharmonic Choir members: trained by Richard Cooke, they are gloriously full-toned in loud passages and capable of the merest whisper without losing pitch. The orchestra, too, is mightily impressive...Margaret Price soars effortlessly in the final 'Requiem'."
(Classic FM)
"...one of those performances which achieves memorability through the happy conjunction of its several parts...Both orchestra and choir acquit themselves with distinction and the soloists work well, both individually and as a team. The two British singers Margaret Price and Robert Lloyd are in exceptional form."
(Gramophone)
