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Article: Verdi: Messa da Requiem. (Martina Arroyo, Josephine Veasey, Placido Domingo, Ruggero Raimondi, Leonard Bernstein, London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus)
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- National Review
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- November 24, 1989
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Verdi's Messa da Requiem,
FROM ITS first performance, there has been controversy over the theatricality of Verdi's Messa da Requiem, written to commemorate the death of the Italian nationalist and literary hero Alessandro Manzoni. Because of the Drama that inheres in the score, the Verdi Requiem imposes restraints on the performers that can be ignored only at peril. But ignored they have been in a new recording by Leonard Bernstein conducting the London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, with Martina Arroyo, Josephine Veasey, ...
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