Requiem : Simone Young / Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra

Verdi: Requiem

Rosamund Illing
Bernadette Cullen
Dennis O’Neill
Bruce Martin
Opera Australia Chorus
Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra
Simone Young, conductor

Live at Sydney Opera House

Reqiuem then, but not ‘aeternam’, to this sublime creation, which is truly an emanation of the Divine Spirit. We who are living will hear it and know it is being repeated in every corner of the civilised world. Posterity will place it, with wings outspread, in domination of all the music of mourning ever conceived by the human brain.” Giuseppina Verdi

The Dies irae from Verdi’s Requiem has to be one of the world’s most recognized pieces of music - the sort where you can’t name what it is, but you just know it so well. Powerful and exciting, it is offset by heartbreakingly beautiful melodies.

This recording is from memorable live performances at the Sydney Opera House and features Rosamund Illing, Bernadette Cullen, Dennis O’Neill and Bruce Martin along with the Opera Australia Chorus all of whom are in fine voice. This is the ABC Classics debut of world-renowned Australian conductor, Simone Young. ( ABC Classics )