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Simon Halsey on Verdi’s Messa da Requiem Daniel Barenboim conducts Verdi’s Requiem
Hans von Bülow, the first chief conductor of the Berliner Philharmoniker, was deeply moved: “Even in a rather mediocre performance,” he wrote to Giuseppe Verdi, his Requiem had “moved me to tears”. The work does, in fact, have an emotional immediacy that is unusual for liturgical music – for example, in the Dies Irae, which depicts a shattering apocalypse. This performance will be led by Daniel Barenboim, honorary conductor of the Berliner Philharmoniker.
Berliner Philharmoniker
Daniel Barenboim
Susanne Bernhard
Marina Prudenskaja
Michael Spyres
Tareq Nazmi
Rundfunkchor Berlin
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