Christine Labroche wrote: >So am I. Donizetti certainly completed his 1835 Requiem in memory of >Bellini, if my sources are to be believed. The movement I heard was this (details taken from BBC Radio 3 playlists): Ingemisco (Requiem) Luciano Pavarotti Orchestra of the Lyric Arena of Verona/Gerhard Fackler DECCA 425 043-2 Tr 7x That it was Pavarotti was obvious to me even listening to the recording from another room! Perhaps if I'd heard another singer performing it I might have been less impressed. Virginia Knight [log in to unmask] Currently on maternity leave & based in Cambridge Personal homepage: http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/~ggvhk/virginia.html