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.

Tracklist:

Requiem, Pt. 1: I. Introit
Requiem, Pt. 1: II. Sequence I. Dies Irae
Requiem, Pt. 1: III. Sequence II. Tuba Mirum
Requiem, Pt. 1: IV. Sequence III. Liber Scriptus
Requiem, Pt. 1: V. Sequence IV. Quid Sum Miser
Requiem, Pt. 1: VI. Sequence V. Recordare
Requiem, Pt. 1: VII. Sequence VI. Confutatis - Lacrymosa
Requiem, Pt. 2: VIII. Offertorium
Requiem, Pt. 2: IX. Sanctus
Requiem, Pt. 2: X. Agnus Dei
Requiem, Pt. 2: XI. Lux Aeterna
Requiem, Pt. 2: XII. Libera Me
Requiem, Pt. 2: XIII. In Paradisum

UPC: 636943984123
Label: Naxos American
Release Date: 10.12.18
Format: CD

Harbison / Nashville Symphony Orch / Markgraf - Requiem (CD)