Mozart: Requiem [download]

Opera News’ The Best of the Year

Performance: ***** Recording: **** ‘This performance benefits from marvellous sound and shows Davis secure in his tempo choices and bringing that combination of solemnity, grandeur and drama ... Soprano Marie Arnet’s pristine tone and flawless intonation make her near ideal.’
BBC Music Magazine

‘Ritualistic, monumental and thrillingly dramatic.’
The Guardian

‘This is a grandly scaled, nobly contoured reading, by turns monumental and ferociously dramatic. With biting choral attack, searing, spitting strings and scything trumpets, the Dies Irae has a terrifying intensity I have rarely heard equalled.’
Gramophone

‘A deeply felt account of a masterpiece from a conductor who has lived with this music for most of his professional life.’
Sunday Times