MusicWeb International reviews the Verdi: Messa da Requiem Concert DVD:

“…set in a magnificent venue with an excellent acoustic well caught by the engineers. … Yuri Temirkanov draws sensitive, yet, at appropriate moments, highly dramatic, playing from his orchestra. The variation between the opening, hushed Requiem aeternam and the vibrant Dies irae, is visceral in its emotion and feeling. The choral forces, wholly equal to the varied tempi and modulations that the composer’s music demands, produce an ethereal performance. To hear a Russian choir of this quality, particularly in the lower male voices, is an experience in itself. … The basso’s entry with the words “Mors stupebit” is chilling in its impact. … I was greatly impressed by his singing throughout this concert; it matches his physical stature in tonal depth and interpretation of the words. The latter virtue is also to be heard in Francesco Meli’s bright and strongly intoned Ingemisco. … I was greatly impressed by the mezzo Olesya Petrova, finding her beauty of tone and expression truly formidable in the Liber scriptus and duets with the soprano Dinara Alieva.”

—Robert J Farr, MusicWeb International

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