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Title: An Excellent Rendition of Berlioz's Requiem
Review: The Requiem Op.5 is one of Berlioz's greatest works and its performance demands luxuriously a large scale orchestra, a boys' choir, a huge chorus and a tenor (in IX Sanctus). The array is no less enormous than Mahler's symphony No.8 requires.Simply speaking, Sir Colin Davis and LSO ensure an excellent Berlioz performance. This splendid Requiem recording of 1969, like other Berlioz discs from LSO under the baton of Davis, can be rated first class in terms of all aspects. Davis's unique reading is as charming as before, especially at chorus sections. The original recording keeps high level of Philips and the CD transfer is also well done.Colin Davis ranks absolutely among greatest Berlioz exponents. This Requiem interpretation stands undoubtedly along with those legendary performances from Charles Munch and Sir Thomas Beecham.Highly recommended!
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