Daniele Gatti, foto Radio France (?)

It was a pleasure to enjoy the Requiem by Giuseppe Verdi with The French National Orchester,  The choir of Radio France, and the outstanding soloists Krassimira Stoyanova, sopran, which we next season shall be looking forward to enjoy as Luisa Miller at Opera de Paris. I exspecially appreciated with ms. Stoyanovas voice, that she has a beautiful fluding melodic tune, the pianissimo is absolutely wonderful. Fantastic hugh tunes. Even when she is pressed by the whole orchestra and 100 persons choire, she didn´t need to scream. This is a soprano of the type that i like

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Ekaterina Gubanova, mezzo-soprano, which we allready know very well,  last as Olga in Eugene Onegin. Her voice is a brilliant well placed mezzo, and she has the extra beauty, that i enjoy. Furtherone the young good tenor Francesco Meli, I am still remembering back to the old recordings with great tenors before him, this presentaton was up to the very highest standard. With a lot of beautifully parts, starting with a fortissimo which lifted it all up to another level of standard, and continued with many beautiful pianissimo parts. A very pleasant meeting.

Last but not least the German base Georg Zeppenfeld, as I have not met before. I want to hear him as King Philip in Don Carlos, that role must be as written for him. His parts in Requiem was perfect.

Matthias Brauer has, as chief for the choir done a good work by preparing them to the best possible. It is a big choir more than 100 hundred singers, and it is a very big job to get the sound so deliciouse as we heard to night. The balance between the groups was perfect.

Daniele Gatti is a good condutor, well, I am shure that is also why he was invited to take over as chief conductor after Kurt Masur
. He does a good job with the orchestra, choire, and the soloists, and his inspiration for them all was giving this Verdis Requiem a high standard as we will remember for a long time.