Carlo Maria Giulini

Carlo Maria Giulini has died at the age of 91. There’s an obituary in today’s Guardian.

I never did have the experience of being present in person to hear Giulini conduct. I have only ever heard his work via the medium of radio or recordings. I still have, and treasure, recordings by him of Verdi’s Requiem (with Schwarzkopf, Ludwig, Gedda and Ghiaurov) and Verdi’s Don Carlos (with Domingo, Caballé, et al). I’ll be playing the Requiem today in memory of him.