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Harbison: Requiem / Guerrero, Nashville Symphony

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Composer
HARBISON, JOHN
Artist
Guerrero, Rivera, Martens, Phan, Markgraf
Format
CD
Label
Naxos
Released
Oct 12, 2018
Catalog #
8559841
UPC
636943984123

About

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

Tracklist 13 tracks

  1. 1 Part I: Introit 06:38
    Track
    1
    Title
    Part I: Introit
    Duration
    06:38
    Composer
    John Harbison
    Ensemble
    Nashville Symphony Chorus, Nashville Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Giancarlo Guerrero
  2. 2 Part I: Sequence I: Dies irae 04:18
    Track
    2
    Title
    Part I: Sequence I: Dies irae
    Duration
    04:18
    Composer
    John Harbison
    Ensemble
    Nashville Symphony Chorus, Nashville Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Giancarlo Guerrero
  3. 3 Part I: Sequence II: Tuba mirum 02:23
    Track
    3
    Title
    Part I: Sequence II: Tuba mirum
    Duration
    02:23
    Composer
    John Harbison
    Ensemble
    Nashville Symphony Chorus, Nashville Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Giancarlo Guerrero
  4. 4 Part I: Sequence III: Liber scriptus 01:54
    Track
    4
    Title
    Part I: Sequence III: Liber scriptus
    Duration
    01:54
    Composer
    John Harbison
    Ensemble
    Nashville Symphony Chorus, Nashville Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Giancarlo Guerrero
  5. 5 Part I: Sequence IV: Quid sum miser 02:46
    Track
    5
    Title
    Part I: Sequence IV: Quid sum miser
    Duration
    02:46
    Composer
    John Harbison
    Performer
    Jessica Rivera, Michaela Martens, Nicholas Phan, Kelly Markgraf
    Ensemble
    Nashville Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Giancarlo Guerrero
  6. 6 Part I: Sequence V: Recordare 06:53
    Track
    6
    Title
    Part I: Sequence V: Recordare
    Duration
    06:53
    Composer
    John Harbison
    Performer
    Jessica Rivera, Michaela Martens, Nicholas Phan, Kelly Markgraf
    Ensemble
    Nashville Symphony Chorus, Nashville Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Giancarlo Guerrero
  7. 7 Part I: Sequence VI: Confutatis - Lacrymosa 06:36
    Track
    7
    Title
    Part I: Sequence VI: Confutatis - Lacrymosa
    Duration
    06:36
    Composer
    John Harbison
    Performer
    Jessica Rivera, Michaela Martens, Nicholas Phan, Kelly Markgraf
    Ensemble
    Nashville Symphony Chorus, Nashville Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Giancarlo Guerrero
  8. 8 Part II: Offertorium 07:13
    Track
    8
    Title
    Part II: Offertorium
    Duration
    07:13
    Composer
    John Harbison
    Performer
    Jessica Rivera, Michaela Martens, Nicholas Phan, Kelly Markgraf
    Ensemble
    Nashville Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Giancarlo Guerrero
  9. 9 Part II: Sanctus 03:41
    Track
    9
    Title
    Part II: Sanctus
    Duration
    03:41
    Composer
    John Harbison
    Ensemble
    Nashville Symphony Chorus, Nashville Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Giancarlo Guerrero
  10. 10 Part II: Agnus Dei 03:09
    Track
    10
    Title
    Part II: Agnus Dei
    Duration
    03:09
    Composer
    John Harbison
    Performer
    Jessica Rivera, Kelly Markgraf
    Ensemble
    Nashville Symphony Chorus, Nashville Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Giancarlo Guerrero
  11. 11 Part II: Lux aeterna 02:58
    Track
    11
    Title
    Part II: Lux aeterna
    Duration
    02:58
    Composer
    John Harbison
    Performer
    Jessica Rivera, Michaela Martens, Nicholas Phan, Kelly Markgraf
    Ensemble
    Nashville Symphony Chorus, Nashville Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Giancarlo Guerrero
  12. 12 Part II: Libera me 03:45
    Track
    12
    Title
    Part II: Libera me
    Duration
    03:45
    Composer
    John Harbison
    Performer
    Jessica Rivera, Michaela Martens, Nicholas Phan, Kelly Markgraf
    Ensemble
    Nashville Symphony Chorus, Nashville Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Giancarlo Guerrero
  13. 13 Part II: In paradisum 02:15
    Track
    13
    Title
    Part II: In paradisum
    Duration
    02:15
    Composer
    John Harbison
    Ensemble
    Nashville Symphony Chorus, Nashville Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Giancarlo Guerrero