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Maderna: Requiem

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Composer
MADERNA, BRUNO
Artist
Tomsche, Goring, Berchtold, Meszar
Format
CD
Label
Capriccio
Released
Oct 09, 2015
Catalog #
C5231
UPC
845221052311

About

Bruno Maderna's Requiem was long considered lost and was indeed only premiered in the Teatro la Fenice in Venice in November 2009 - about 36 years after his death. In 1943, Maderna was called up for military service and fought as a partisan against Italy's erstwhile allies, the Germans. He was taken prisoner by the SS, who interrogated him in Dachau and released him shortly afterwards. 'At that moment, it was the only possibility to write a requiem and then to die', Maderna said later. The Requiem suggests an intensive study of the models in the genre, e.g. those by Giuseppe Verdi and Hector Berlioz. At the same time, as a 'War Requiem' the work is a pacifist manifesto.

Tracklist 9 tracks

  1. 1 Part I: Requiem 03:41
    Track
    1
    Title
    Part I: Requiem
    Duration
    03:41
    Composer
    Bruno Maderna
    Ensemble
    MDR Rundfunkchor, Robert-Schumann-Philharmonie
    Conductor
    Frank Beermann
  2. 2 Part I: Kyrie eleison 05:43
    Track
    2
    Title
    Part I: Kyrie eleison
    Duration
    05:43
    Composer
    Bruno Maderna
    Ensemble
    MDR Rundfunkchor, Robert-Schumann-Philharmonie
    Conductor
    Frank Beermann
  3. 3 Part I: Dies irae 23:35
    Track
    3
    Title
    Part I: Dies irae
    Duration
    23:35
    Composer
    Bruno Maderna
    Performer
    Bernhard Berchtold, Renatus Mészár
    Ensemble
    MDR Rundfunkchor, Robert-Schumann-Philharmonie
    Conductor
    Frank Beermann
  4. 4 Part II: Domine Jesu 02:24
    Track
    4
    Title
    Part II: Domine Jesu
    Duration
    02:24
    Composer
    Bruno Maderna
    Performer
    Diana Tomsche
    Ensemble
    MDR Rundfunkchor, Robert-Schumann-Philharmonie
    Conductor
    Frank Beermann
  5. 5 Part II: Sanctus 02:12
    Track
    5
    Title
    Part II: Sanctus
    Duration
    02:12
    Composer
    Bruno Maderna
    Performer
    Bernhard Berchtold, Renatus Mészár
    Ensemble
    MDR Rundfunkchor, Robert-Schumann-Philharmonie
    Conductor
    Frank Beermann
  6. 6 Part II: Benedictus 05:32
    Track
    6
    Title
    Part II: Benedictus
    Duration
    05:32
    Composer
    Bruno Maderna
    Performer
    Diana Tomsche
    Ensemble
    MDR Rundfunkchor, Robert-Schumann-Philharmonie
    Conductor
    Frank Beermann
  7. 7 Part II: Agnus Dei 04:20
    Track
    7
    Title
    Part II: Agnus Dei
    Duration
    04:20
    Composer
    Bruno Maderna
    Performer
    Diana Tomsche, Kathrin Goring
    Ensemble
    MDR Rundfunkchor, Robert-Schumann-Philharmonie
    Conductor
    Frank Beermann
  8. 8 Part II: Lux aeterna 03:00
    Track
    8
    Title
    Part II: Lux aeterna
    Duration
    03:00
    Composer
    Bruno Maderna
    Ensemble
    MDR Rundfunkchor, Robert-Schumann-Philharmonie
    Conductor
    Frank Beermann
  9. 9 Part II: Libera me 09:23
    Track
    9
    Title
    Part II: Libera me
    Duration
    09:23
    Composer
    Bruno Maderna
    Performer
    Bernhard Berchtold, Renatus Mészár
    Ensemble
    MDR Rundfunkchor, Robert-Schumann-Philharmonie
    Conductor
    Frank Beermann