BBC Music Magazine – September 2013

This issue we're celebrating the music of Giuseppe Verdi, whose bicentenary falls this year. Our cover star, Welsh bass-baritone Bryn Terfel, talks about taking on the larger-than-life role of Falstaff, and we talk to some of the biggest names in the opera world about singing Verdi's best loved roles. Angela Gheorghiu talks about Desdemona while Jonas Kaufmann sings Don Carlos's praises. Plus, on the cover CD recording, hear a 1988 recording of Verdi's Requiem, conducted by Sir John Pritchard.