I’ve just caught up with a Verdi gala presented in Paris before Christmas. The twist in the programme is that all of the music is either orchestral or with chorus, highlighting Giuseppe Verdi’s remarkable abilities to wring expression out of large ensembles.
Daniele Gatti leads his Orchestre national de France and the Choeur de Radio France in this stirring concert, available for free streaming here. Here’s a very small sample, the infamous “Va’, pensiero” from Art 3 of Nabucco:
http://youtu.be/c-yt2vVPvJY
John Terauds, Editor-Emeritus of Ludwig van Toronto, is currently a Divinity student at the University of Toronto and a church music director. He joined the Toronto Star in 1988, was the classical music critic from 2005 to 2012, and continues as a freelance critic for the paper. He is the co-author of Roy Thomson Hall: A Portrait, a book written with Toronto Star Colleague, William Littler.
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