Berlioz - Requiem / Davis, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and Chorus
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Features
• Classical
• Color
• Dolby
• DVD-Video
• NTSC
In Theaters : 2001
DVD Release : 09 July, 2002 |
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Berlioz - Requiem / Davis, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and Chorus Customer Reviews
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This is indeed a first-rate performace of the Berlioz Requiem, but the performance venue takes the edge off of it. Given the composer's original conception of the work, the Requiem should be done in a grand, cathedral sized space if at all possible. But in this case the choir and sanctuary of the cathedral are too narrow to allow the sound to spread out. The singers and players are crammed together. Under the circumstances, Colin Davis leads the excellent musicians of the BRSO and Chorus in a loving and thoughtful performance, but he cannot bring them to the heights achieved in his great 1970 recording for Philips with the London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus (audio CD only).
I wouldn't discourage anyone from purchasing this DVD, if they can find a copy, but I would recommend as a better performance all in all the one readily available on a Kultur DVD with Leonard Bernstein conducting a great assembly of French musicians in the very space for which Berlioz wrote the Grande Messe des morts, Les Invalides in Paris. |
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