Description
Release Date Friday 17th January 2025
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Rufus Wainwright’s Dream Requiem is the result of a commission from major cultural institutions in the US, UK, and Europe. This world premiere recording features a new composition by the legendary, Grammy-nominated musician.
Written during the pandemic, it's a requiem "for the people we have lost in this crisis, for the past from which we are cut off and for the future to which we do not yet know how to connect, a Requiem for human contact, solidarity and the human voice that have all become dangerous and contagious." It's also a reflection on environmental collapse and the increase in the number of natural disasters. The text of Dream Requiem weaves together words from the Latin Mass for the Dead - as used by his hero Verdi - with Lord Byron's apocalyptic poem "Darkness," written after the volcanic eruption of Mount Tambora in 1815 and which brought about "the year without summer.”
Dream Requiem was commissioned by Radio France, The Royal Ballet, the Los Angeles Master Chorale, Palau de la Música Catalana Barcelona, Auditori de Barcelona, the RTÉ Concert Orchestra, the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra and the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra. World Premiere presented by Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, conducted by Mikko Franck on 14 June 2024, with soprano Anna Prohaska, Maîtrise de Radio France and Choeur de Radio France.
CD TRACKLISTING
Darkness I
Requiem aeternam
Lux perpetua
Kyrie, eleison
Sequentia I: Dies irae
Darkness II
Sequentia II: Mors stupebit
Sequentia III: Rex tremendae
Sequentia IV: Ingemisco
Sequentia V: Confutatis
Darkness III
Offertorium
Sanctus
Agnus Dei
Lux Aeterna
Darkness IV
In paradisum
Applause
LP Tracklisting
Side A
Darkness I
Requiem aeternam
Lux perpetua
Kyrie, eleison
Sequentia I: Dies irae
Darkness II
Side B
Sequentia II: Mors stupebit
Sequentia III: Rex tremendae
Sequentia IV: Ingemisco
Sequentia V: Confutatis
Darkness III
Side C
Offertorium
Sanctus
Agnus Dei
Lux Aeterna
Side D
Darkness IV
In paradisum
Applause
Artists
Meryl Streep, narrator - Tracks no. 1, 6, 10, 11, 16
Anna Prohaska, soprano - Tracks no. 3, 4, 9, 14, 16
Marc Desmons, alto solo - Track no. 12
Maîtrise de Radio France - Tracks no. 14, 17
Choeur de Radio France - Tracks no. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 13, 14 15, 16
Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France
Mikko Franck, conductor
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