I was having fun reading the amazon comments on these this morning. People going on and on about Toscanini's "radical tempi" and the vibrato in the sopranos and, my favorite, one person who commented on the second Karajan recording that there was a trumpet trill that they'd never heard before, that was in the score (implying that they not only own the score, but checked) that was too prominent.
By comparison, the comments on Rutter's Requiem are more along the lines of "AWESOME!!!!"
I'll probably go with the Shaw. I think I'd prefer the Bernstein, but it looks like it's out of print, and the used copies are too expensive. I have the Shaw Rachmaninoff Vesper's, though, which I'm not really a fan of. He's too precise and his tempi are too slow--it sucks the drama out of it, I think.
I've been listening through my other Requiem recordings--I think I need to find better ones for a lot of these. The chorus in my Faure has so little enunciation they might as well be singing "waa waa waa" like Charlie Brown's mother in the cartoon. And my Durufle is just distorted for some reason. Do I dare go with the Shaw Faure/Durufle Requiem CD? I don't know!!!
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Date: 2008-12-11 11:13 pm (UTC)By comparison, the comments on Rutter's Requiem are more along the lines of "AWESOME!!!!"
I'll probably go with the Shaw. I think I'd prefer the Bernstein, but it looks like it's out of print, and the used copies are too expensive. I have the Shaw Rachmaninoff Vesper's, though, which I'm not really a fan of. He's too precise and his tempi are too slow--it sucks the drama out of it, I think.
I've been listening through my other Requiem recordings--I think I need to find better ones for a lot of these. The chorus in my Faure has so little enunciation they might as well be singing "waa waa waa" like Charlie Brown's mother in the cartoon. And my Durufle is just distorted for some reason. Do I dare go with the Shaw Faure/Durufle Requiem CD? I don't know!!!