After being distracted by listening to Taylor Swift on iTunes, I searched for Sir Soltifor his Ring Cycle and instead found the Verdi Requiem much to my liking.
Does anyone have a preferred version? I am currently looking at the DECCA one on CD.
Please disregard as I found it in my Luciano Pavarotti The Complete Opera recordings. I have left this post up if someone knows of a better version.
T,I,A,
Mitch in Oz.
Shaw on Telarc. Again, great sound. Powerful. Beautifully sung and played. Slightly more on the religious side rather than the operatic.
I only have one version, Fritz Reiner with the Wiener Philharmoniker. It’s part of the collection of Reiner’s recordings I built from 1975 onward.
Robert Shaw you say? You’re going to need a bigger CD player 
Listening to it now in full HD from Qobuz - very good
Erm, sorry @crispyduck , that’s lost on me. 
I’m not the sharpest knife in the drawer…
Apologies. It was a joke about the actor Robert Shaw who played the shark hunter, Quint, in the film Jaws (“Your going to need a bigger boat” etc).
Never trust a man who drinks red wine with fish …
Ah ha ! Last saw the film 50 years ago, so forgive me… 
Similar quote - Ange to Levy… “You’re going to need a bigger squad”
Why take the operatic side off Verdi’s Requiem? I don’t think I ever heard a Requiem with a truly religious side; if composers believed in an afterlife, they wouldn’t wish dead people eternal rest.
Because it’s a requiem.
A Requiem Mass, also known as a “Mass for the Dead,” is one of the most solemn and significant services in the Roman Catholic Church. The structure of a Requiem Mass includes several distinct parts, each with its own musical setting and purpose. Some of the most well-known sections are:
It is not an opera.
In Catholic theology, the concepts of eternal peace and the afterlife are actually complementary rather than contradictory. The afterlife, according to Catholic belief, includes Heaven, Purgatory, and Hell.
The prayer for eternal peace in a Requiem Mass is a hope that the souls of the departed will eventually find themselves in Heaven, experiencing eternal peace with God.
Jesus, you take it seriously don’t you? 
This music is meant to be taken seriously 
Hi Mitch. I note you’ve started a number of these threads on best recordings of classical pieces. I find the threads interesting. It’s fascinating to read other people’s views and post my own prejudices from time to time. But I do wonder how useful it is in making your own choice of recordings. I don’t really subscribe to the idea of a “best” version; we all bring along our individual preferences and tastes. Another group might make a completely different set of recommendations.
So I do wonder if it might be worth investing in a streamer that supports Qobuz or Tidal and taking out a subscription. That way you can listen for yourself and choose versions that appeal most to you. A ND5XS2 would be the obvious choice for your system, but there are a number of cheaper alternatives, too.
Just a thought.
Roger
As a comment on Roman Catholicism, that’s a quote I’ll have to remember!
Roger
But if I search Qobuz for Verdi Requiem I get about 75 albums. Some are probably duplicates, but it didn’t seem as though that was the case all that often. Getting some forum favorites seems a good way to begin the exploration.
Sure. I’m not certainly not suggesting listening to every recording on Qobuz. Rather, my point is that the recommendations on the forum, mine included, are subjective and individualistic. Too often before I used Qobuz, I bought a recommended CD only to find it didn’t really appeal to me0. Listening to them on a streaming service is a good way of doing some weeding amongst the recommendations. That’s what I find, at any rate.
Roger
