Mansurian: Requiem, for soprano, baritone, mixed chorus and string orchestra

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Mansurian’s sound-world is notably clean: time and again he juxtaposes orchestral unisons and stark instrumental effects with plainchant, yet burnished splendour is the result. Throughout the... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2017, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 17th Mar 2017
Catalogue No: 4814101
Label: ECM
Series: New Series
Length: 45 minutes

Grammy Awards

60th Awards (2017)

Nominee - Choral Performance
Grammy Awards

60th Awards (2017)

Nominee - Contemporary Classical Composition
International Classical Music Awards

2018

Winner - Contemporary

Mansurian: Requiem

Work length45:19

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Anja Petersen (soprano), Andrew Redmond (baritone)
Munich Chamber Orchestra, RIAS Kammerchor
Alexander Liebreich
Recorded: 2016-01-12
Recording Venue: Christuskirche, Berlin

Requiem Aeternam

Track length8:22

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Kyrie

Track length6:06

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Dies Irae

Track length2:46

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Tuba Mirum

Track length5:07

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Lacrimosa

Track length5:51

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Domine Jesu Christe

Track length8:04

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Sanctus

Track length5:22

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Agnus Dei

Track length3:41

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Tigran Mansurian has created a Requiem dedicated to the memory of the victims of the Armenian Genocide that occurred in Turkey from 1915 to 1917 – which affected members of the composer's own family in the most direct way.

It reconciles the sound and sensibility of his country’s traditions with the Latin Requiem text in a profoundly moving contemporary composition, illuminated by the “glow of Armenian modality”, as Paul Griffiths puts it in his booklet essay. The work is a milestone for Mansurian, widely acknowledged as Armenia's greatest composer. The Los Angeles Times has described his music as that “in which deep cultural pain is quieted through an eerily calm, heart-wrenching beauty”.

The Requiem was co-commissioned by the Munich Chamber Orchestra and RIAS Chamber Choir Berlin and first performed by them in Berlin and Munich in 2011 and receives its premiere recording here.

This album is the sixth to appear in ECM’s documentation of Mansurian’s work, a series that began with the scene-setting ‘Hayren: Music of Komitas And Tigran Mansurian’ in 2003 and includes recordings by violinists Leonidas Kavakos and Patricia Kopatchinskaja, cellist Anja Lechner and the Amsterdam Sinfonietta, Jan Garbarek and The Hilliard Ensemble, and the Armenian Chamber Choir.

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October 2017

Mansurian’s sound-world is notably clean: time and again he juxtaposes orchestral unisons and stark instrumental effects with plainchant, yet burnished splendour is the result. Throughout the work there is a sense of musical worlds colliding and – in the Agnus Dei, where all emotion is washed pure – finally coalescing, in a symbolic meeting between heaven and earth. The performance has singular grace and power

Mansurian: Requiem, for soprano, baritone, mixed chorus and string orchestra

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