Requiem Message

The orchestra's harsh and relentless beats call for judgment, the flames of purgatory blaze in the chorus: Verdi, a born dramatist, knew how to spectacularly stage the thunder and howls of anguish on the Day of Judgement in the Dies irae . But no less impressive are the quiet moments of the Messa da Requiem , in which Verdi musically explores the pangs of conscience and the hope for the mercy of the Judge of the World.