DVD 7063 REQUIEM (Verdi)

This recording is sharp both sonically and visually. More importantly, this is a stirring performance. Music making doesn't get much better. In this performance are the combined resources of the chorus of Teatro Regio Turin, the NDR Chor, WDR Rundfunkchor Koln, and WDR Sinfonieorchester Koln, conducted by Semyon Bychkov. The four soloists are in fine form. I have heard numerous performances of Verdi's Requiem, and this may become my all time favorite. Gorgeous sound, appropriately tender, dramatic, impassioned, reverent, etherial.