For sheer excitement, few moments in music match the onslaught of sound that opens the "Dies Irae" of Verdi's Requiem. Conductor Donald McCullough gave the passage its full, red-blooded impact -- brass pealing forth with unbuttoned vitality, bass drum thudding with suitably apocalyptic zest -- when...
Chorale's Verdi Requiem: Appropriately Operatic
For sheer excitement, few moments in music match the onslaught of sound that opens the "Dies Irae" of Verdi's Requiem. Conductor Donald McCullough gave the passage its full, red-blooded impact -- brass pealing forth with unbuttoned vitality, bass drum thudding with suitably apocalyptic zest -- when...