Foulds - A World Requiem
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Label: Chandos
Cat No: CHSA50582
Format: Hybrid SACD
Number of Discs: 2
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 2nd January 2008
Contents
Artists
Jeanne-Michele Charbonnet (soprano)Catherine Wyn-Rogers (mezzo-soprano)
Stuart Skelton (tenor)
Gerald Finley (baritone)
Trinity Boys Choir
Crouch End Festival Chorus
Philharmonia Chorus
BBC Symphony Chorus
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Conductor
Leon BotsteinWorks
A World RequiemArtists
Jeanne-Michele Charbonnet (soprano)Catherine Wyn-Rogers (mezzo-soprano)
Stuart Skelton (tenor)
Gerald Finley (baritone)
Trinity Boys Choir
Crouch End Festival Chorus
Philharmonia Chorus
BBC Symphony Chorus
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Conductor
Leon BotsteinAbout
Adopted by the British Legion as the centrepiece of its Armistice Night celebrations from 1923 to 1926 at the Royal Albert Hall but not heard since then, the Manchester-born John Foulds’ heartfelt memorial to the war dead of all nations is here revived under the American conductor Leon Botstein in a spectacular recreation of those original Festival of Remembrance performances. With international soloists (Jeanne-Michèle Charbonnet, Catherine Wyn-Rogers, Stuart Skelton and Gerald Finley), massed choirs, the BBC Symphony Orchestra, off-stage fanfares and the great organ of the Royal Albert Hall, this performance presents music on a huge scale.
Very different in nature from Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem of forty years later, Foulds’ A World Requiem is nevertheless a significant forerunner in its deeply pacifist inspiration, its use of mixed, only partly liturgical text, its varied instrumental forces, and its relation to the 1914 – 18 War. Indeed, it dared to offer itself as a public statement – as a focus for a national or even an international act of remembrance. Its relation to war is much more direct as it was composed in the immediate aftermath of the conflict. Foulds stated that it was conceived as ‘a tribute to the memory of the Dead – a message of consolation to the bereaved of all countries’, and in its ardent invocation of peace it leans towards the mystical.
This modern revival is long overdue and may now demonstrate that the work’s relevance is both timeless and contemporary.
Live concert recording. World premiere recording.
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