Harbison: Requiem / Guerrero, Nashville Symphony

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Label
Naxos
Release Date
October 12, 2018
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      HARBISON, JOHN
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Nashville Symphony Orchestra, Nashville Symphony Chorus
    • PERFORMER
      Guerrero, Rivera, Martens, Phan, Markgraf
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      October 12, 2018
    • UPC
      636943984123
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      8559841
    • LABEL
      Naxos
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Part I: Introit

      Composer: John Harbison

      Ensemble: Nashville Symphony Chorus, Nashville Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Giancarlo Guerrero

    2. Part I: Sequence I: Dies irae

      Composer: John Harbison

      Ensemble: Nashville Symphony Chorus, Nashville Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Giancarlo Guerrero

    3. Part I: Sequence II: Tuba mirum

      Composer: John Harbison

      Ensemble: Nashville Symphony Chorus, Nashville Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Giancarlo Guerrero

    4. Part I: Sequence III: Liber scriptus

      Composer: John Harbison

      Ensemble: Nashville Symphony Chorus, Nashville Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Giancarlo Guerrero

    5. Part I: Sequence IV: Quid sum miser

      Composer: John Harbison

      Ensemble: Nashville Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Jessica Rivera, Michaela Martens, Nicholas Phan, Kelly Markgraf

      Conductor: Giancarlo Guerrero

    6. Part I: Sequence V: Recordare

      Composer: John Harbison

      Ensemble: Nashville Symphony Chorus, Nashville Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Jessica Rivera, Michaela Martens, Nicholas Phan, Kelly Markgraf

      Conductor: Giancarlo Guerrero

    7. Part I: Sequence VI: Confutatis - Lacrymosa

      Composer: John Harbison

      Ensemble: Nashville Symphony Chorus, Nashville Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Jessica Rivera, Michaela Martens, Nicholas Phan, Kelly Markgraf

      Conductor: Giancarlo Guerrero

    8. Part II: Offertorium

      Composer: John Harbison

      Ensemble: Nashville Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Jessica Rivera, Michaela Martens, Nicholas Phan, Kelly Markgraf

      Conductor: Giancarlo Guerrero

    9. Part II: Sanctus

      Composer: John Harbison

      Ensemble: Nashville Symphony Chorus, Nashville Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Giancarlo Guerrero

    10. Part II: Agnus Dei

      Composer: John Harbison

      Ensemble: Nashville Symphony Chorus, Nashville Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Jessica Rivera, Kelly Markgraf

      Conductor: Giancarlo Guerrero

    11. Part II: Lux aeterna

      Composer: John Harbison

      Ensemble: Nashville Symphony Chorus, Nashville Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Jessica Rivera, Michaela Martens, Nicholas Phan, Kelly Markgraf

      Conductor: Giancarlo Guerrero

    12. Part II: Libera me

      Composer: John Harbison

      Ensemble: Nashville Symphony Chorus, Nashville Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Jessica Rivera, Michaela Martens, Nicholas Phan, Kelly Markgraf

      Conductor: Giancarlo Guerrero

    13. Part II: In paradisum

      Composer: John Harbison

      Ensemble: Nashville Symphony Chorus, Nashville Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Giancarlo Guerrero


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. “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.” 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.

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REVIEW:

The Requiem is original and striking, but in a relatively traditional mold, with gorgeous solo lines—the thread of melody that runs through the piece unifies and humanises it—choral and vocal counterpoint that dates to the Baroque but in modern tonal harmonies, and a richness of emotional depth and harmonic and textural intricacy that make it a more than worthy addition to the distinguished tradition of concert requiems.

– Records International