The Chorusmaster, Simon Halsey, was interviewed the other eve on the local classical station (RBB Kultur Radio), and in it they played the same extract of the Requiem from both this recording and the other one made at a similar time by Simon Rattle with the same choir, but the BPO.
Based on that excerpt, this one is vastly better (having been at the concert of the BPO/Rattle I am not surprised). Must get...
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