Verdi: Messa da Requiem - Antonio Pappano, Rolando Villazon

Verdi: Messa da Requiem - Anja Harteros, Sonia Ganassim Rolando Villazon, Rene Pape / Orchestra e Coro dellAccademia di Santa Cecilia, Antonio Pappano

Following the release of his critically acclaimed recording of Madama Butterfly, Music Director Antonio Pappano returned to the Orchestra and Chorus of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in January 2009 for performances of Verdis spectacular Requiem with stellar soloists Anja Harteros, Sonia Ganassi, Rolando Villazón and René Pape. EMI Classics microphones were at hand to record the concerts.

In the words of Antonio Pappano, himself born to Italian parents, this is a Requiem written by an Italian and I think Italians relationship to religion is explosive, full of temperament, full of fear. . And the spectre of being punished, of sins it sounds like an opera Im describing. I love doing this piece here in Rome with an Italian chorus and an Italian orchestra, and they have an innate sense of what this music is about, how to bring it to life. They really know what the words mean. They have lived what it is to be religious or spiritual in Italy.

Interviewed at the time of the performances, Rolando Villazón discusses the same subject: Many say that this is the best opera Verdi ever wrote. Clearly its not but the theatricality of the piece requires something more than what you would use for an oratorio Its a very delicate balance singers have to have. You have to respect the style of this church piece, and at the same time you have to bring out the emotion.
To that end, Antonio Pappano brings out the extremes of dynamics in the orchestral, solo and chorus parts: the opening, one of Pappanos favourite sections, is hushed and what Canning describes as the great horror moments [send] shivers down the spine.
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