“Riccardo Muti has become a rare visitor to London, but this quite exceptional performance of Verdi's Messa da Requiem, with the cathedral providing an added sense of occasion, showed what this country's musical life has been missing. Not since Carlos Kleiber's last performances here has there been conducting of such imperious intensity as Muti brought to Verdi's masterpiece. There was something memorably awesome about the swirling waves of compound sound rolling down the nave in the climaxes...
“This performance belonged to Muti. His grip was total. He asked for and received every ounce of effort from his massed forces.”

Martin Kettle, Guardian, 19.3.07