John Harbison - Requiem - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

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. Completed in the wake of the 9/11 attacks, Harbison's Requiem is full of dramatic passages from singers and musicians alike, with abundant opportunities for vocal soloists, brass and percussion to shine. InchI wanted my piece to have a sense of the inexorability of the passage of time,Inch the composer says, Inchfor good and ill, of the commonality of love and loss.Inch Giancarlo Guerrero is the six-time Grammy-winning music director of the Nashville Symphony, music director of the Wroclaw Philharmonic in Poland, and principal guest conductor of the Gulbenkian Orchestra in Lisbon, Portugal. A passionate proponent of new music, he has championed a number of America's most respected composers through recordings, commissions, and eight world premieres with the Nashville Symphony, including the Grammy-winning recording of Michael Daugherty's Tales of Hemingway. Album Tracks 1. Requiem, Pt. 1 I. Introit 0 06 38 2. Requiem, Pt. 1 II. Sequence I. Dies Irae 0 04 18 3. Requiem, Pt. 1 III. Sequence II. Tuba Mirum 0 02 23 4. Requiem, Pt. 1 IV. Sequence III. Liber Scriptus 0 01 54 5. Requiem, Pt. 1 V. Sequence IV. Quid Sum Miser 0 02 46 6. Requiem, Pt. 1 VI. Sequence V. Recordare 0 06 53 7. Requiem, Pt. 1 VII. Sequence VI. Confutatis - Lac 0 06 36 8. Requiem, Pt. 2 VIII. Offertorium 0 07 13 9. Requiem, Pt. 2 IX. Sanctus 0 03 41 10. Requiem, Pt. 2 X. Agnus Dei 0 03 09 11. Requiem, Pt. 2 XI. Lux Aeterna 0 02 58 12. Requiem, Pt. 2 XII. Libera Me 0 03 45 13. Requiem, Pt. 2 XIII. in Paradisum 0 02 15