You can tell what a grest conductor Giulini is by the way the soloists sing, rhythmically together and vocally balanced. He's like a grander version of Toscanini. The soloists are all stunning. Konyas beautiful tenor voice has not been sufficiently appreciated. And it's nice to hear Ligabue and Arie doing something other than Alice Ford and Arkel. The Requiem is Verdi's greatest opera!🎉
The face of Giulini, at the start of the Dies Irae and the way the percussion player beats his drum. Wowwww. And I have just begun to watch this performance.
Se percibe la gran calidad de interpretación de la orquesta y el coro, es una lástima que en ese entonces no existía una mejor fidelidad en la grabación, aún así, es una de mis interpretaciones favoritas. Gracias por compartir esta joya de la música.
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This has to be one, if not the best recording of Verdi's Requiem out there. Grace is indeed on fire here and I love the bass.. I don't care what he does with his score🤣
I think Sondor Konya is wonderful-- _all of the singers._ Konya has the most movingly breath-taking music & he justified Verdi's masterpiece. ( Giulini is the most participatory conductor I've ever seen. Arie is a stunning Bass who can be heard no matter how low he sinks. ) I don't like religious music ... but God ... this is musical beauty. This is the first time I have listened to the _whole_ piece. What a lucky night for me. _Thank you, Papillon57 !_
I have had the hots for Ilva Ligabue ever since seeing/hearing her in a performance of La Forza Del Destino with Franco Corelli at the Comunale Theatre Firenze in 1967 ; she was stunningly beautiful and I love the sound of her voice .
Unfortunately, she tried heavy roles before she should have, far too young, and her voice gave out on her very early. What a loss. Grace Bumbry, amazing here, showed how long a beautiful voice can last, even expanding into heavy soprano roles (Norma!), when treating the voice with care!
@@charlestittsworth2433 l remember falling for her when she sang Donna Elvira at Glyndebourne very early 1960s. She then sang at Covent Garden, Countess and Elvira and was slightly disappointing. The last time l heard her was inTrieste in 1974. So what you say fits.
Thank you for this priceless video footage... thanks to people like you UA-cam has become a valuable repository for important documentary materials, and there are many, many thousands of people who deeply appreciate such contributions.
Amigos: esta interpretación no tiene igual, solo es mayor que ella la clásica de clásicas dirigida por Toscanini! Gracias A UA-cam y Papillon 57, que nos han dado la oportunidad única de admirar esta joya!
I would like to Say all what is crossing my mind while i am listening to this Amazing performance. Id just say thank you for sharing this. I will enjoy it more than once.
Magnífico elenco. ¿Quién se acuerda del grandísimo bajo Raffaele Arié? Suerte que existen los documentos, tanto audio como vídeos para responder. Una auténtica voz profunda.
I knew only one recording (late Karajan with VPO) with such an emotional and deep understanding of the very beginning of the requiem like Giulini. Great, good singers! His recording with Shwarzkopf and Gedda is also a milestone.
¡¡¡Qué barbaridad!!! ¡¡¡ IM-PRE-SIO-NAN-TE!!! ¡Qué sangre la de Giulini! Le adoro. Tiene otro grabado en estudio con la misma orquesta y coro, pero con la Schwarzkopf, Ludwig, Gedda y Ghiaurov, de los mismos años aprox., más perfecto que este. Pero verle.... esa gestualidad y elegancia, su concepto desde lo más místico a lo más brutal...sobrecogedor. Maravilla. Le adoro. (Y Raffaele Ariè cerrando su partitura...)
This and the Abbado 1970 Rome film are probably my modern favourite performances of the Requiem. Otherwise, Schuricht 1939, De Sabata / Tebaldi 1951, Fricsay / Grummer 1951 and Kord / Zylis-Gara 1979.
🤣🤪🤣 i saw a lot of different performance of this Requiem but never so funny because of the Maestro ! His Dires irae is really comic to look at .... beautiful Grace Bumbry... Beautiful bass... A beautiful performance
Absolutely marvelous!!! I love these old concerts and so grateful for you posting this one. Wonderful performance. I feel like allot of new soloists these days make yell-time noises rather then focus on singing....however these four were flawless; although I find myself blown away by all of the old greats. Again thank you for posting this old musical gem. While on the subject of old concerts, do you think you could possibly post a concert video of Robert Shaw with the Atlanta Symphony on here? Maybe one of his famous Christmas broadcasts; since I know those were recorded and streamed on television..... He is probably my favorite conductor, and it would be so cool to see him as well.
Bumbry was fantastic ...but we shouldnt forget what a fine tenor Konya was...Here was the worlds leading Lohengrin,but also an excellent Edgardo,Rodolfo,Dick Johnson,and Cavaradossi.Liquid silvery voice. Arie was a fine bass, but his fidgeting was disrespectful to others when they were singing their solo arias. Nothing like watching the tenors Ingemisco with Arie blowing his nose behind him.
The best recording of the Verdi Requiem I ever heard was with Gigli , Caniglia , Stignani and Pinza, 1939 , with Toscanini conducting . I originally had on 78s , but more recently found on a CD . Marvelous !!!
@@CzarDodon I was wondering how on Earth Toscanini could have conducted Gigli , Caniglia , Stignani and Pinza in 1939 when he had just had to flee Italy for his life, and all those guys were staying.
Ah yes, the fabulous Miss Bumbry! I saw what may have been her last performance as the Old Lady in "Candide" in Berlin. I like also the Requiem in Reiner's recording with Leontyne Price and Jussi Björling. I don't like the ads cutting into the middle of the sections though. Is it absolutely necessary?
I've never heard Grace Bumbry sound so low-down. ( I don't recognise her voice. ) Mezzo-sopranos / Contraltos w / great, great instruments don't have any need to switch.
A great performance, with superb soloists (particularly the wonderful Grace Bumbry) and the Philharmonia Chorus and Orchestra at the top of their form - these were the golden days of the Philharmonia. Curious orchestral layout, with the violas on the outside on the right, giving them more prominence (but, then, was not Giulini once a viola player?). Only spoiled by Ariè's distracting inability to decide what to do with his score!
Yes from the early 50's to the mid 60's the Philharmonia were arguably the finest orchestra in the World as attested by their many outstanding recordings for EMI with Guilini, Karajan and Klemperer. However, playing aside, I do prefer the way orchestral players today are generally more animated than in past generations.
Violetta Urmana was also terrific, and like Grace, switched to Soprano. She sang both the Mezzo and Soprano solos in separate performances of this monumental work!
The recording is quite good for 1964. The soloists give performances equally as good as much lauded, better known singers, and they are well matched as an ensemble here. I haven't seen this on CD/DVD, is it available?
Can anyone identify any members of the orchestra? Hugh Bean is the leader and perhaps a young Alan Civil amongst the horns but I can't recognise anyone else.
she was simply so stupendous in the Mezzo register, which may have tempted ... But there can be problems working out where the voice is going to settle, so somewhere comfortable is found, and then if there are developments suggesting a change that is worked through. There is also the question of the break in the voice, the passagio, and there can be a lack of voice there if the choice made between mezzo and high soprano is not well made. A singer can find she has high soprano equipment and also mezzo to contralto capacities, but extraordinary problems with crucial notes in the middle. As I recall, Janet Baker retired when something of the sort happened to her. It can even be one note and only one note which causes problems, and I remember one Montano in Otello who had dire problems with an E, a great D and a splendid F, but the E on which he had to open and which he had a chain of immediately thereafter.
@@muebrigetta True. During the time when she was doing a lot of Salomes and Turandots (70's-early '91), it was clear that she was indeed a Mezzo during some parts of where it was heard that some forte notes were somewhat strident screamed out, and to a point where her voice lingered high, screechy and an unbalanced middle. Nevertheless, she gave it her all during that height in her career, and eventually returned back to her foundation as a Mezzo-Soprano after a period of rest.
To my ears, surprisingly Sandor Konya is the weakest link in this beautiful rendition of Verdi's Messa da Requiem, not a bad performance but with a voice like his it should have been stratospheric instead of sound restrained
I don't think the sound recording of the principals was good enough , I agree that Sandor Konya seemed rather reserved . I do not think anybody can sing it better than Gigli who created an ethereal sound in the 1939 recording .
Eternal love and memory to unique and amaxing Grace Bumbry !
All the soloists are wonderful. I especially love Grace Bumbry.
You can tell what a grest conductor Giulini is by the way the soloists sing, rhythmically together and vocally balanced. He's like a grander version of Toscanini. The soloists are all stunning. Konyas beautiful tenor voice has not been sufficiently appreciated. And it's nice to hear Ligabue and Arie doing something other than Alice Ford and Arkel. The Requiem is Verdi's greatest opera!🎉
The face of Giulini, at the start of the Dies Irae and the way the percussion player beats his drum. Wowwww. And I have just begun to watch this performance.
Se percibe la gran calidad de interpretación de la orquesta y el coro, es una lástima que en ese entonces no existía una mejor fidelidad en la grabación, aún así, es una de mis interpretaciones favoritas. Gracias por compartir esta joya de la música.
This is an amazing Requiem. A fabulous conductor and four great soloists.
The fabulous Grace Bumbry!
ΟΝΕ ΟF THE BEST INTERPRETATIONS OF THIS TOP MUSICAL MASTERPIECE!
A 27 year old Grace Bumbry excelling.
I love Grace Bumbry! Even more when she started to sing Soprano roles!
BUMBRY is on FIRE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! INCREDIBLE!!!! YESSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Bumbry had a superb voice period... And always used it with the highest degree of artistic intensity possible. A truly great artist!
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One of the greatest in that art-form's over 400-year history. Her _majestic sound_ will never be heard again.
@@photo161 Yes, she became one of the finest mezzos EVER to being a rather touch-and-go over-stretched soprano with on and off days.
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This has to be one, if not the best recording of Verdi's Requiem out there. Grace is indeed on fire here and I love the bass.. I don't care what he does with his score🤣
@Felnao_69 Agreed!
@@atbp0321forse Pavarotti? Più morbido e struggente di Corelli...
I think Sondor Konya is wonderful-- _all of the singers._ Konya has the most movingly breath-taking music & he justified Verdi's masterpiece. ( Giulini is the most participatory conductor I've ever seen. Arie is a stunning Bass who can be heard no matter how low he sinks. )
I don't like religious music ... but God ... this is musical beauty. This is the first time I have listened to the _whole_ piece. What a lucky night for me.
_Thank you, Papillon57 !_
The soloists are par excellence
There'll never be another Giulini.
Now that's a conductor!
La mejor interpretación del Réquiem y la de su grabación para EMI es la referencia absoluta.
Grandissimo Giulini
Una versione stupenda del capolavoro verdiano
I have had the hots for Ilva Ligabue ever since seeing/hearing her in a performance of La Forza Del Destino with Franco Corelli at the Comunale Theatre Firenze in 1967 ; she was stunningly beautiful and I love the sound of her voice .
Unfortunately, she tried heavy roles before she should have, far too young, and her voice gave out on her very early. What a loss. Grace Bumbry, amazing here, showed how long a beautiful voice can last, even expanding into heavy soprano roles (Norma!), when treating the voice with care!
@@charlestittsworth2433 l remember falling for her when she sang Donna Elvira at Glyndebourne very early 1960s. She then sang at Covent Garden, Countess and Elvira and was slightly disappointing. The last time l heard her was inTrieste in 1974. So what you say fits.
That's a long and complex work to conduct from memory... impressive.
Muti, Abbado, Bernstein etc - they could all do it from memory...
@@Tevyeh613 Believe me when you study a work well enough to conduct it, memory isn't an issue.
@@photo161 True. The audience does not see the many rehearsal hours where the actual work of the conductor occurs.
Thank you for this priceless video footage... thanks to people like you UA-cam has become a valuable repository for important documentary materials, and there are many, many thousands of people who deeply appreciate such contributions.
Yes, isn't it wonderful?
This is the best I’ve heard…
Giulini, the Master.
It's more impressive to watch Guilini conduct, with his facial expressions and swinging arms, than it is for everything else.
he doesn;'t look very happy after the Kyrie!
Troppo agitato ...
Giulini Genius!!!
Amigos: esta interpretación no tiene igual, solo es mayor que ella la clásica de clásicas dirigida por Toscanini! Gracias A UA-cam y Papillon 57, que nos han dado la oportunidad única de admirar esta joya!
I would like to Say all what is crossing my mind while i am listening to this Amazing performance. Id just say thank you for sharing this. I will enjoy it more than once.
Ich Liebe das Lied Wunderschön Gott segne uns alle
Alles Gute zum Geburtstag liebe Grace 💝💕💓
Magnífico elenco. ¿Quién se acuerda del grandísimo bajo Raffaele Arié? Suerte que existen los documentos, tanto audio como vídeos para responder. Una auténtica voz profunda.
I knew only one recording (late Karajan with VPO) with such an emotional and deep understanding of the very beginning of the requiem like Giulini. Great, good singers! His recording with Shwarzkopf and Gedda is also a milestone.
Except for Dame ES being quite unsuitable.
¡¡¡Qué barbaridad!!! ¡¡¡ IM-PRE-SIO-NAN-TE!!! ¡Qué sangre la de Giulini! Le adoro. Tiene otro grabado en estudio con la misma orquesta y coro, pero con la Schwarzkopf, Ludwig, Gedda y Ghiaurov, de los mismos años aprox., más perfecto que este. Pero verle.... esa gestualidad y elegancia, su concepto desde lo más místico a lo más brutal...sobrecogedor. Maravilla. Le adoro. (Y Raffaele Ariè cerrando su partitura...)
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La pulizia stilistica di Giulini rimane per sempre affascinante
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Condivido in pieno, e la associo ad una ormai rara pulizia etica verso la musica e il proprio lavoro.
Meraviglioso gesto di Giulini trascendente
Tenor was amazing..
This and the Abbado 1970 Rome film are probably my modern favourite performances of the Requiem. Otherwise, Schuricht 1939, De Sabata / Tebaldi 1951, Fricsay / Grummer 1951 and Kord / Zylis-Gara 1979.
Amo a este director ♡
Perfect of Requiem
21:10 Bumbrystic
I was......18 years old ONLY......
I am ashtoning from the competence of the marvelleuse public of London. This was an event!
🤣🤪🤣 i saw a lot of different performance of this Requiem but never so funny because of the Maestro ! His Dires irae is really comic to look at .... beautiful Grace Bumbry... Beautiful bass... A beautiful performance
A lot of people don't condivide your meaning...
Absolutely marvelous!!! I love these old concerts and so grateful for you posting this one. Wonderful performance. I feel like allot of new soloists these days make yell-time noises rather then focus on singing....however these four were flawless; although I find myself blown away by all of the old greats. Again thank you for posting this old musical gem. While on the subject of old concerts, do you think you could possibly post a concert video of Robert Shaw with the Atlanta Symphony on here? Maybe one of his famous Christmas broadcasts; since I know those were recorded and streamed on television..... He is probably my favorite conductor, and it would be so cool to see him as well.
@Jacob Bump When will Robert Shaw get his due?
Bumbry. Words fail me. She is this music
@scott grunow Isn't she wonderful???
Bumbry was fantastic ...but we shouldnt forget what a fine tenor Konya was...Here was the worlds leading Lohengrin,but also an excellent Edgardo,Rodolfo,Dick Johnson,and Cavaradossi.Liquid silvery voice. Arie was a fine bass, but his fidgeting was disrespectful to others when they were singing their solo arias. Nothing like watching the tenors Ingemisco with Arie blowing his nose behind him.
Muchas gracias pot subir esta maravillosa interpretacion
Sándor Kónya is one of the greatest tenors of the XX. century, a great hungarian artist
The best recording of the Verdi Requiem I ever heard was with Gigli , Caniglia , Stignani and Pinza, 1939 , with Toscanini conducting . I originally had on 78s , but more recently found on a CD . Marvelous !!!
I think you'll find it was conducted by Tullio Serafin, I agree it is an extraordinary performance
@@CzarDodon I was wondering how on Earth Toscanini could have conducted Gigli , Caniglia , Stignani and Pinza in 1939 when he had just had to flee Italy for his life, and all those guys were staying.
@ David Barnaby PLEASE POST IT!
@@cattycorner8 You can look it up yourself it has already been posted on UA-cam .Key in Verdi Requiem on UA-cam and scroll until you find it .
Grace is the it!
32:12 Sandor Konya jewell.
Ah yes, the fabulous Miss Bumbry! I saw what may have been her last performance as the Old Lady in "Candide" in Berlin. I like also the Requiem in Reiner's recording with Leontyne Price and Jussi Björling. I don't like the ads cutting into the middle of the sections though. Is it absolutely necessary?
I want to play that bass drum!!!
Impresionant !
Ilva Ligabue is great!
グレース・バンブリーの高貴な響きが素晴らしいね！
Ms. Ligabue is too light of voice and short on temperament in my opinion. Still a wonderful performance. Thank you for posting it!
I'm waiti0ng for PBS to interrupt the ending...
CSFC keep singing! Only 41 weeks 'til our performance!!! John.
Performed #otd in 1964 💐💐💐
Una meravilla! Muchas gracias!
I've never heard Grace Bumbry sound so low-down. ( I don't recognise her voice. ) Mezzo-sopranos / Contraltos w / great, great instruments don't have any need to switch.
11:30 - 12:09
Turn off the volume if you want see some thrilling break dancing.
From my point of view Arie here is the best Bass in a Requiem performance, maybe Pinza, too
But don't forget Siepi!
A great performance, with superb soloists (particularly the wonderful Grace Bumbry) and the Philharmonia Chorus and Orchestra at the top of their form - these were the golden days of the Philharmonia. Curious orchestral layout, with the violas on the outside on the right, giving them more prominence (but, then, was not Giulini once a viola player?). Only spoiled by Ariè's distracting inability to decide what to do with his score!
Yes from the early 50's to the mid 60's the Philharmonia were arguably the finest orchestra in the World as attested by their many outstanding recordings for EMI with Guilini, Karajan and Klemperer. However, playing aside, I do prefer the way orchestral players today are generally more animated than in past generations.
🙏🙏🙏
These endless, cruelly intrusive ads that UA-cam now foists on its users...horrible!
Grace Bumbry died yesterday, Sunday the 7 of Mai, 2023
Grace Bumbry is the best Verdi mezzo we have ever had.
I disagree Shirley Verrett for me
Violetta Urmana was also terrific, and like Grace, switched to Soprano. She sang both the Mezzo and Soprano solos in separate performances of this monumental work!
@John Schmid I agree!
The recording is quite good for 1964. The soloists give performances equally as good as much lauded, better known singers, and they are well matched as an ensemble here.
I haven't seen this on CD/DVD, is it available?
yes, on DVD (EMI)
Quite good? It's fantastic!
Can anyone identify any members of the orchestra? Hugh Bean is the leader and perhaps a young Alan Civil amongst the horns but I can't recognise anyone else.
1.fag Gywdion Brooke, 2.fag Ron Waller?, 1 trpt Philip Jones, btrb. Ray Premru
28:00 best part.
However, I never understood why Grace Bumbry began her career as a Mezzo; she is clearly a Dramatic Soprano.
she was simply so stupendous in the Mezzo register, which may have tempted ... But there can be problems working out where the voice is going to settle, so somewhere comfortable is found, and then if there are developments suggesting a change that is worked through. There is also the question of the break in the voice, the passagio, and there can be a lack of voice there if the choice made between mezzo and high soprano is not well made. A singer can find she has high soprano equipment and also mezzo to contralto capacities, but extraordinary problems with crucial notes in the middle. As I recall, Janet Baker retired when something of the sort happened to her. It can even be one note and only one note which causes problems, and I remember one Montano in Otello who had dire problems with an E, a great D and a splendid F, but the E on which he had to open and which he had a chain of immediately thereafter.
@@muebrigetta True. During the time when she was doing a lot of Salomes and Turandots (70's-early '91), it was clear that she was indeed a Mezzo during some parts of where it was heard that some forte notes were somewhat strident screamed out, and to a point where her voice lingered high, screechy and an unbalanced middle. Nevertheless, she gave it her all during that height in her career, and eventually returned back to her foundation as a Mezzo-Soprano after a period of rest.
Grace Bumbry says in interviews that her teacher Lotte Lehmann said she was a mezzo, that's why she started as a mezzo.
@@edivaD62 I bet that is the truth too
To my ears, surprisingly Sandor Konya is the weakest link in this beautiful rendition of Verdi's Messa da Requiem, not a bad performance but with a voice like his it should have been stratospheric instead of sound restrained
I don't think the sound recording of the principals was good enough , I agree that Sandor Konya seemed rather reserved . I do not think anybody can sing it better than Gigli who created an ethereal sound in the 1939 recording .
They actual took a break in the middle? How weird!
2023: a tutt'oggi (2023) Carlo Maria Giulini il più grande interprete di questo meraviglioso Requiem!!!!
Come mai non fate presente i nomi di questi eccellenti cantanti? Che peccato!
Veramente sono scritti sopra. LEGGI!
it is so hard to get everybody on the beat in the Recordare! the Mezzo always drags.
Auch! one of the trumpets breaks a most ugly missed tone at the very cruicial moment of the Dies Ira! - 13:20 - This ruins everyting. A disaster.
It’s not a disaster is it? The Ukraine is a disaster!
The bass appears somewhat fidgety with that score, and the conductor looks like he's doing an aerobics session.
You should open wide your ears and close your eyes instead of analysing the physical behaviour of the protagonists !!!
Le quatuor vocal est souvent très médiocre, scolaire, imprécis. Que dire du tenor er de la basse ?? Une déception pour moi.
So gut ist Bumbry auch wieder nicht ... nur Ego
Now that's a conductor!