Our Verdi: Messa da Requiem recording was reviewed in the CD format by Audiophile Audition and received a four-star rating:
“[Conductor Temirkanov] savor[s] every musical tone and combination… Dinara Alieva’s…heartfelt…shatter the ionosphere. Mezzo-soprano Petrova melts us with her search for spiritual consolation, especially her duet in the Recordare: Juste judex ultionis: donum fac remissionis. Tenor Francesco Meli intones the plaintive Ingemisco, rife with guilt and self-accusation, hoping to find a place among the blessed. … The Confutatis maledictus from basso Dmitry Belosselskiy enjoys a chesty resonance that reminds me of Boris Christoff. No less impressive, the Bolshoi Theater Chorus under Valery Borisov consistently injects a huge responsive to the demands of the music, especially in the ecstatic double fugue in the Sanctus. The a cappella soli sequences perhaps gain the most intimacy, with the chorus sliding under the four vocalists—for the Lachrymosa—in darkly hushed poignancy. … A hugely mounted performance”
—Gary Lemco, Audiophile Audition
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