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Re: Britten's Requiem
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James Tobin <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Fri, 12 Feb 1999 08:50:03 -0600
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Mark Seeley:

>Chris Bonds wrote of his search for the perfect Verdi Requiem.  I am
>looking for the same of Britten's War Requiem.  I am considering the London
>recording under the direction of Britten himself, but I hear it is not that
>well recorded.  The others I am considering are Hickox on Chados and Shaw
>on Telarc.

Get the Britten.  He was a superb conductor of his own music, the soloists
are excellent and I never felt the recording left anything to be desired.

Jim Tobin

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