Harbison: Requiem

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Harbison wrote his Requiem in the wake of the 9/11 attacks, but much of its musical material dates from earlier, starting in 1985 with a draft of the Introit…The vocal soloists make a mainly... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2018, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 12th Oct 2018
Catalogue No: 8559841
Label: Naxos
Series: American Classics
Length: 54 minutes

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Harbison: Requiem

Work length54:24

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Jun Iwasaki (violin), Jessica Rivera (soprano), Michaela Martens (mezzo-soprano), Nicholas Phan (tenor), Kelly Markgraf (baritone)
Nashville Symphony Chorus, Nashville Symphony Orchestra
Giancarlo Guerrero
Recorded: 12-13 May 2017
Recording Venue: Laura Turner Concert Hall, Schermerhorn Symphony Center, Tennessee, USA

Pt. 1: I. Introit

Track length6:37

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Pt. 1: II. Sequence I. Dies irae

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Pt. 1: III. Sequence II. Tuba mirum

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Pt. 1: IV. Sequence III. Liber scriptus

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Pt. 1: V. Sequence IV. Quid sum miser

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Pt. 1: VI. Sequence V. Recordare

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Pt. 1: VII. Sequence VI. Confutatis - Lacrymosa

Track length6:40

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Pt. 2: VIII. Offertorium

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Pt. 2: IX. Sanctus

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Pt. 2: X. Agnus Dei

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Pt. 2: XI. Lux aeterna

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Pt. 2: XII. Libera me

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Pt. 2: XIII. In paradisum

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Completed in the wake of the 9/11 attacks, Pulitzer Prize-winner and MacArthur fellow John Harbison has composed a Requiem for our times — a moving choral work that incorporates the composer’s distinctive sensibilities while drawing deeply on the tradition of Latin sacred music. “I wanted my piece to have a sense of the inexorability of the passage of time,” the composer says, “for good and ill, of the commonality of love and loss.”

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January 2018

Harbison wrote his Requiem in the wake of the 9/11 attacks, but much of its musical material dates from earlier, starting in 1985 with a draft of the Introit…The vocal soloists make a mainly positive impression, as does conductor Giancarlo Guerrero. All told, this is a solidly reliable account of a worthwhile work.

January 2019

Balancing the ritual and the personal in an expressive and accessible musical language, the work reveals throughout Harbison’s sensitivity to the meaning of the text. The Nashville Symphony Chorus has really grasped the measure of this music and delivers a compelling account, with exemplary diction, bundles of rhythmic energy when needed, and even tone. Together with four excellent soloists, Giancarlo Guerrero and his Nashville forces deliver a first-rate performance of the piece.

Classical Ear December 2018

Harbison provides his own booklet notes for a superbly engineered and produced recording.

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