Article: ESO brings out the magic in Verdi masterpiece.(News)

Byline: Bill Gowen Daily Herald Classical Music Critic

Giuseppe Verdi's Requiem Mass, first performed in 1874 on the first anniversary of the death of the Italian poet Alessandro Manzoni, holds a rightful place among the greatest works in the choral-orchestral repertoire.

The Manzoni Requiem, as it's otherwise known, contains music of explosive drama and quiet repose, which led a few early critics to ridicule it as "church music in operatic costume," because its creator was the pre-eminent opera composer of the day.

That viewpoint has long since been discredited. The Elgin Symphony Orchestra demonstrated once again this weekend what a supreme ...

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