Dvorák, Antonín - Requiem - Järvi, Neeme (conductor)
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NEEME JÄRVI conductor
LISA MILNE soprano
KAREN CARGILL mezzo soprano
PETER AUTY tenor
PETER ROSE bass
LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA and CHOIR
Recorded live at Southbank Centre's Royal Festival
Hall, London, 7 February 2009
Rarely heard in concert at all, the Requiem by Antonín Dvorák captured on this CD from a live concert seems a near-forgotten masterpiece. Dvorák scholar Gervase Hughes cites this work for four soloists, chorus and orchestra as one of the composer's finest sacred creations, 'a deeply moving expression of faith on the part of a composer whose religious conviction never wavered'. It's a conviction stamped through the composer's illuminating, fervent score.
Press acclaim:
'Opportunities to hear Dvorák's grand "Requiem" are few and far between, so this was undoubtedly a special occasion... In this first-rate performance, the intense power of the "Requiem" shone as it has probably rarely - if ever - done before... Under Neeme Järvi's inspirational direction, the London Philharmonic played magnificently. The brass was impressively solid, often sending a shiver down the spine - especially when aided, as in the menacing but never histrionic 'Tuba mirum', by the glorious Royal Festival Hall organ.'
(Classical Source)