BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Edinburgh International Festival 2013
The Festival’s Usher Hall concerts come to an epic conclusion with Verdi’s powerful Requiem, its theatricality and gripping emotions making it as suited to the opera house or concert hall as to any church. From music of hushed restraint and transcendent hope through to the thunderclap-like drums that depict the day of judgement in the terrifying Dies irae, it is a magnificent work full of operatic grandeur and dramatic contrasts.
Conductor Donald Runnicles is famed for his resplendent performances of large-scale late-Romantic music, and joining him and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra are four fine international soloists as well as the massed voices of the Edinburgh Festival Chorus.
This concert will be broadcast on BBC Radio 3 at a future date.
Tickets £12 – £42
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes approximately
For further information, please refer to : http://www.eif.co.uk/verdirequiem
Booking recommended