Verdi: Requiem

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one of the great interpretations, intensely felt and marvellously acute in its understanding of the balance between the score's devotional and dramatic elements. The playing and choral singing... — The Guardian, 12th July 2012, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 30th Apr 2012
Catalogue No: ICAC5068
Label: ica classics
Series: Legacy
Length: 2 hours 15 minutes

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Verdi: Messa da Requiem, Requiem

Work length11:07

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$2.60

Galina Vishnevskaya (soprano), Nina Isakova (mezzo-soprano), Vladimir Ivanovsky (tenor), Ivan Ivanovich Petrov (bass)
Russian State Academy Chorus, Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra
Igor Markevitch
Recorded: 1960
Recording Venue: Moscow

Requiem aeternam

Track length6:35

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Kyrie

Track length4:32

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Verdi: Messa da Requiem, Dies irae

Work length35:46

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$13.00

Galina Vishnevskaya (soprano), Nina Isakova (mezzo-soprano), Vladimir Ivanovsky (tenor), Ivan Ivanovich Petrov (bass)
Russian State Academy Chorus, Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra
Igor Markevitch
Recorded: 1960
Recording Venue: Moscow

Dies irae, dies illa

Track length2:03

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$1.30

Tuba mirum

Track length1:50

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Mors stupebit

Track length1:16

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Liber scriptus

Track length4:45

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Quid sum miser

Track length3:37

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Rex tremendae

Track length3:48

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Recordare

Track length4:05

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Ingemisco

Track length3:25

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Confutatis

Track length4:54

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Lacrymosa

Track length6:03

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Verdi: Messa da Requiem, Offertorio

Work length10:34

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Galina Vishnevskaya (soprano), Nina Isakova (mezzo-soprano), Vladimir Ivanovsky (tenor), Ivan Ivanovich Petrov (bass)
Russian State Academy Chorus, Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra
Igor Markevitch
Recorded: 1-4 April 1957
Recording Venue: Maison de la Mutualite, Paris

Domine Jesu

Track length4:49

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Hostias et preces tibi

Track length5:45

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Excerpt, Verdi: Requiem

Work length13:49

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$3.90

Galina Vishnevskaya (soprano), Nina Isakova (mezzo-soprano), Vladimir Ivanovsky (tenor), Ivan Ivanovich Petrov (bass)
Russian State Academy Chorus, Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra
Igor Markevitch
Recorded: 1-4 April 1957
Recording Venue: Maison de la Mutualite, Paris

Sanctus

Track length2:33

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Agnus Dei

Track length5:44

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Lux aeterna

Track length5:32

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Verdi: Messa da Requiem, Libera me

Work length13:13

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$5.20

Galina Vishnevskaya (soprano), Nina Isakova (mezzo-soprano), Vladimir Ivanovsky (tenor), Ivan Ivanovich Petrov (bass)
Russian State Academy Chorus, Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra
Igor Markevitch
Recorded: 1-4 April 1957
Recording Venue: Maison de la Mutualite, Paris

Libera me, Domine I

Track length2:13

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$1.30

Dies irae

Track length1:48

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$1.30

Requiem aeternam

Track length3:16

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Libera me, Domine II

Track length5:56

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$1.30

Excerpt, Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia

Work length7:03

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$2.60

Orchestre National de France
Igor Markevitch
Recorded: 1-4 April 1957
Recording Venue: Maison de la Mutualite, Paris

Overture

Track length7:03

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$2.60

Excerpt, Rossini: La scala di seta

Work length6:29

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Orchestre National de France
Igor Markevitch
Recorded: 1-4 April 1957
Recording Venue: Maison de la Mutualite, Paris

Overture

Track length6:29

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Excerpt, Rossini: Guillaume Tell

Work length11:55

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$3.85

Orchestre National de France
Igor Markevitch

Overture

Track length11:55

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$3.85

Excerpt, Rossini: La gazza ladra

Work length10:33

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$3.85

Orchestre National de France
Igor Markevitch

Overture

Track length10:33

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$3.85

Excerpt, Rossini: L'Italiana in Algeri

Work length7:53

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Orchestre National de France
Igor Markevitch

Overture

Track length7:53

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$2.60

Excerpt, Rossini: La Cenerentola

Work length7:36

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Orchestre National de France
Igor Markevitch

Overture

Track length7:36

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$2.60

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The great Russian conductor Igor Markevitch (1912–1983) was born in Kiev and spent his formative years in Switzerland. He studied piano with Cortot and composition with Boulanger, and from the late 1920s until 1939 he enjoyed a successful career as a composer. However, after this period he concentrated on conducting, making a sensational debut with the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 1955. He recorded with all the major orchestras, notably the Berlin Philharmonic, Philharmonia, London Symphony Orchestra and Lamoureux, and guest conducted in all the main international centres until the mid-1970s. Markevitch left a very large discography on EMI, DG and Philips.

At the height of his powers in 1960, Markevitch returned to Russia and made a great impact with his concerts with the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, resulting in this vibrant live and rare recording of the Verdi Requiem which preceded the studio version (no longer available). The spontaneity of the live recording is very evident in terms of both the extremely wide dynamic range of the recording and Markevitch’s fiery conducting, which never lets up.

David Patmore has written, ‘Markevitch’s repertoire during this visit included the Verdi Requiem, then a most unusual work to encounter in Russia because of its overt religious purpose and meaning. Possibly as a result, Markevitch and his Russian forces held no inhibitions in their performance, emphasising the operatic quality of the work, and performing it more as a drama than a liturgical rite.’

The recording features a young Galina Vishnevskaya, in her prime as an outstanding dramatic soprano. The bass, Ivan Petrov (of German origin), was born in Irkutsk in 1920, becoming a stalwart of the Bolshoi company – he was considered to be one of their finest basses. The mezzo-soprano and tenor of Markevitch’s quartet, Nina Isakova and Vladimir Ivanovsky, did not achieve international fame, but their contributions on this occasion were certainly whole-hearted. Markevitch’s rapport with both chorus and orchestra was clearly close, with strong attack matched by great sensitivity from both.

The Rossini Overtures, all brilliantly played, have been sourced from a mint LP to give extra bloom to the sound.

The recording features the Ambient Mastering process to widen the sound stage and create more depth.

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12th July 2012

one of the great interpretations, intensely felt and marvellously acute in its understanding of the balance between the score's devotional and dramatic elements. The playing and choral singing are frighteningly committed...The filler, meanwhile, is a selection of Rossini overtures recorded in Paris in 1957, done with bags of energy and impeccable wit.

Verdi: Requiem

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