Release Date: 28 April 2016
Label: Naxos / Naxos Classics
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 636943978924
Genres: Classical
Composer/Series: Thompson
Description
Randall Thompson's choral works retain the affection of American choral singers and conductors alike. The Requiem is his masterpiece, written in response to the loss of close friends and colleagues. Using a wide-ranging selection of Biblical verses, it takes the form of a dramatic dialogue between two choirs, a 'chorus of mourners' and a 'chorus of the faithful', concerning eternal life. Recorded here for the first time in its complete form, this Requiem is an emotional and dramatically intense journey of conflict and resolution, and entirely unique within American music history and the requiem tradition as a whole.
Tracklisting
Peter Otto; Nashville Symphony; Giancarlo Guerrero
Dariia Lytvishko
Michael Kaykov
Danish Chamber Orchestra; Adam Fischer
DUO Goni-Perretta
Wenting Shi
Stuttgar
Schilli
Richard Cook, St Edmundsbury Cathedral Choir, Claudia Grinnell
Mvsica Perdvta
Iker Munduate
Gunta Smirnova, Mikayel Balyan
Young Artists of the Rome Chamber Music Festival/Flavio Emilio Scogna
Toby Carr
Tobias Tietze
The Choir of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge; Andrew Lawrence-King (psaltery & harp); David Skinne
