Messa Da Requiem

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Product Description Remembered principally today as a composer for the double bass, Bottesini excelled in other forms, including opera and sacred music. His impressive Requiem is a large-scale work worthy of comparison with Verdi's famous Requiem. This recording has the CD market entirely to itself. Review Giovanni Bottesini's Messa da Requiem was composed in response to the death of his brother, its first performance coming just three years after Verdi s Requiem. Completed in 1877 and welcomed at its world premiere, it immediately fell into neglect, and remained unperformed for a century. As posterity has shown, it's timing could not have been more unfortunate, for where Verdi used wide dynamics and exciting gestures to enliven his audience, Bottesini's score was clothed in muted and reverential colours of a previous generation. Today he is best remembered as the greatest double bass virtuoso of his time, and for the many works of fiendish difficulty that he composed for the instrument. One of his greatest living champions is the bassist, Thomas Martin, who here turns to conducting a highly engaging performance of the Requiem. He has a very a good quartet of solo singers and a fine chorus in the London-based Joyful Company of Singers, while the London Philharmonic offer nicely polished playing in a score that is woodwind orientated. Very good sound quality from London s Henry Wood Hall. --David's Review Corner, David Denton