Thompson: Requiem / Hayes, Philadelphia Singers

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Label
Naxos
Release Date
May 13, 2016
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      THOMPSON, RANDALL
    • PERFORMER
      Philadelphia Singers, Hayes
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      May 13, 2016
    • UPC
      636943978924
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      8559789
    • LABEL
      Naxos
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Choral - Sacred
    Works ⌄

    1. Part I: Lamentations

      Composer: Randall Thompson

      Ensemble: Philadelphia Singers

      Conductor: David Hayes

    2. Part II: The Triumph of Faith: Why make ye this ado?

      Composer: Randall Thompson

      Ensemble: Philadelphia Singers

      Conductor: David Hayes

    3. Part II: The Triumph of Faith: What man is he?

      Composer: Randall Thompson

      Ensemble: Philadelphia Singers

      Conductor: David Hayes

    4. Part II: The Triumph of Faith: Good tidings to the meek

      Composer: Randall Thompson

      Ensemble: Philadelphia Singers

      Conductor: David Hayes

    5. Part III: The Call to Song: Be filled with the spirit

      Composer: Randall Thompson

      Ensemble: Philadelphia Singers

      Conductor: David Hayes

    6. Part III: The Call to Song: O let the nations be glad

      Composer: Randall Thompson

      Ensemble: Philadelphia Singers

      Conductor: David Hayes

    7. Part III: The Call to Song: Sing unto Him

      Composer: Randall Thompson

      Ensemble: Philadelphia Singers

      Conductor: David Hayes

    8. Part III: The Call to Song: Utter a song

      Composer: Randall Thompson

      Ensemble: Philadelphia Singers

      Conductor: David Hayes

    9. Part IV: The Garment of Praise: Sing with the spirit

      Composer: Randall Thompson

      Ensemble: Philadelphia Singers

      Conductor: David Hayes

    10. Part IV: The Garment of Praise: Let everything that hath breath

      Composer: Randall Thompson

      Ensemble: Philadelphia Singers

      Conductor: David Hayes

    11. Part IV: The Garment of Praise: Let them give glory

      Composer: Randall Thompson

      Ensemble: Philadelphia Singers

      Conductor: David Hayes

    12. Part IV: The Garment of Praise: Praise Him all ye stars of light

      Composer: Randall Thompson

      Ensemble: Philadelphia Singers

      Conductor: David Hayes

    13. Part IV: The Garment of Praise: I am their music

      Composer: Randall Thompson

      Ensemble: Philadelphia Singers

      Conductor: David Hayes

    14. Part V: The Leave-taking: Ye were sometimes darkness

      Composer: Randall Thompson

      Ensemble: Philadelphia Singers

      Conductor: David Hayes

    15. Part V: The Leave-taking: The Lord shall be unto thee

      Composer: Randall Thompson

      Ensemble: Philadelphia Singers

      Conductor: David Hayes

    16. Part V: The Leave-taking: Return unto thy rest

      Composer: Randall Thompson

      Ensemble: Philadelphia Singers

      Conductor: David Hayes

    17. Part V: The Leave-taking: Thou hast given him

      Composer: Randall Thompson

      Ensemble: Philadelphia Singers

      Conductor: David Hayes

    18. Part V: The Leave-taking: Amen and amen, alleluia

      Composer: Randall Thompson

      Ensemble: Philadelphia Singers

      Conductor: David Hayes


Listen to the Naxos Podcast episode on this release to learn more!



Randall Thompson’s choral works retain the affection of American choral singers and conductors alike. The Requiem is his masterpiece, written in response to the loss of close friends and colleagues. Using a wide-ranging selection of Biblical verses, it takes the form of a dramatic dialogue between two choirs, a "chorus of mourners" and a "chorus of the faithful", concerning eternal life. Recorded here for the first time in its complete form, this Requiem is an emotional and dramatically intense journey of conflict and resolution, and entirely unique within American music history and the requiem tradition as a whole.

REVIEW:

The performance is very well done by The Philadelphia Singers, a professional choir that after 43 years disbanded in 2015, the year after this recording was made. Although it’s an often strange and imperfect work, we’re fortunate to have the recording, as it fills an important gap in Thompson’s recorded catalog and gives a first-class opportunity to experience aspects of his compositional style that we don’t hear anywhere else in his output.

-- ClassicsToday.com (David Vernier)

The Philadelphia Singers, under the tireless, polished leadership of David Hayes, sustain an impressively high level of musicianship over the course of this long and demanding unaccompanied piece. Thompson’s Requiem is revealed here as a major work, unique and masterful, by an important American voice of the last century. I highly recommend it.

-- Opera News