Brahms - Ein deutsches Requiem - Cotrubas, FD - Giulini 1978CD - DDD - Digitally Remastered - 74'21
BBC / Medici Arts 2008
Performer: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Ileana Cotrubas
Conductor: Carlo Maria Giulini
Orchestra/Ensemble: Edinburgh Festival Chorus, London Philharmonic Orchestra
The soloists have relatively little to do in this work but what they have is important. Ileana Cotrubas gives much pleasure in the fifth movement, though I don’t think she quite matches the sincerity of Lucia Popp (Tennstedt). Fisher-Dieskau is on imperious form but what impressed me most of all about his singing is the subtlety he brings to his solos. He’s thoughtful, prayerful even, in parts of the third movement, producing some exquisite soft high notes and I was also surprised – pleasantly – by the delicacy that he brings to the start of the sixth movement. This is an intelligent, thoughtful reading by a great artist. -Arkivmusic
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