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LSO Live.
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I didn't keep this one around for very long. [EDIT: perhaps I should say that the LSO Live recording captures too much of the echo in St. Paul's for my taste.]Unfortunately, I'm pretty wedded to the past wrt the Berlioz Requiem, with the Munch and Davis/Pentatone (Philips) sets being my standbys. I wish there were a more modern recording I could get behind, but all the newer multi-channel versions are compromised for me in one way or another. (I don't like the Spano/Atlanta recording on Telarc either - I thought that Telarc's earlier Shaw recording was much better, but the Shaw recording is not hi-rez and it's not multi-channel.) The same situation applies to the Levine/BPO version on DG (with Pavarotti!): I liked the performance, but I want my modern sonic amenities too! ;-)
Edits: 10/05/16
Definitely a contender in the modern multichannel competition.
I might need to try this. I bought the Spano/Atlanta SACD. I'd never heard the Berlioz Requiem before. Well, I still haven't, because the performance is dull-dull-dull, and the sound is lackluster.
Have you tried this one? Excellent performance and sound (superb tenor solo, too):
I had a couple of DVD's conducted by de Billy and wasn't that impressed, but it sounds from your post as if I should give him another chance! ;-)
k
I was intrigued considering Berlioz wrote the piece with such an acoutic in mind.
I didn't care for either Munch or Davis 1 because of the weak choirs.
I didn't care for either Munch or Davis 1 because of the weak choirs. "
For the finest in choral performance may I recommend the most obscure recording of Requiem, this one is on Naxos, Elora Festival Orchestra, Noel Edison conductor, the choir is Toronto Mendelssohn Choir & Toronto Mendelssohn Youth Choir. The recording is fairly distant with tons of reverberation.
Of all the Requiems this one stands out for the beauty of its choral performance particularly in more peaceful parts.
Vahe
. . . but that LSO Live recording was overdone for my taste (i.e., the ratio of direct to reflected sound wasn't ideal). I still get a good sense of the reverberation on the earlier Davis and Munch recordings - although in neither of these cases is it big cathedral reverberation.
Oops! I just looked and I still DO have the Davis LSO Live SACD. (I could have sworn I jettisoned it!) Maybe I'll give it another listen tomorrow! ;-)
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I haven't heard it, and this won't answer your question, but you may find this recent article interesting:
Thank you, Kas!
It is one of my all-time favorite pieces of music, the apotheosis, I think, of romanticism. Having lived for some time with each of the Ormandy and Abravanel performances, I settled long ago on the first Davis and didn't expect to be tempted by another, but now I may try the Bernstein though I've never been a huge Bernstein fan.
Jeremy
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