Roy Ellefsen wrote asking recommendations for a good recording of Verdi's
Requiem.  I own four recordings of this piece and all of them are self
recommended: Fricsay live on DG (DG Masters 439 684-2), Abbado with La
Scala forces (DG 415 976-2), Gardiner (Philips 442 142-2) and Muti (EMI
Forte 5 68613-2).  The Gardiner version, on period instruments, is a
recording with a huge dinamic range, and if you want to hear the pianissimo
passages you have to put the volume high enough for it - but then, in the
Dies irae, the walls of your room will fall.  By the way, I didn't know
that in many versions the trumpets are out of tune in the Tuba Mirum as
mentioned by Chris Bonds (see "BMG Shaw Sale").

Wilson Pereira.