James O'Donnell The Choir of Westminster Abbey - Music for Remembrance: Duruflé Requiem & Other Works [CD]

Please Note Not All Our New Items Are Shrink Wrapped.All items shipped within 3 working days of payment.This latest album from Westminster Abbey is a programme of memorial music composed in England and France in thershadow of two World Wars.rThe main feature is Durufleu2019s Requiem, one of the best-loved of all works of the twentieth century, and given an astoundingly beautiful performance here, enhanced by distinguished soloists Christine Rice and Roderick Williams. The Requiem is many ways a paradoxical work, based on plainsong but with Durufleu2019s sensuous harmonies suffusing every note with feeling: u2018This Requiem is not an ethereal work which sings of detachment from human concernsu2019, he said. u2018It reflects, in the unchanging form of Christian prayer, the anguish of man faced with the mystery of his final end.u2019 It is a work of unimpeachable integrity, a miraculous synthesis of the old and the new.rThroughout the past century the Abbey has been a focus of national remembrance on Armistice Day, and u2018O God, our help in ages pastu2019u2014the u2018great ceremonial hymn of the English nationu2019, quoted in Vaughan Williamsu2019 Lord, thou has been our refugeu2014has been a constant and reassuring presence, from the Burial Service of the Unknown Warrior on 11 November 1920 to the Service commemorating the Passing of the World War One Generation on 11 November 2009. The anthem by John Tavener recorded here was composed for that service, and all the other English music has some special significance in this place: a statue of Dietrich Bonhoeffer stands above the west door of Westminster Abbey (one of the ten twentieth-century Christian martyrs installed in the niches there in 1998), while the ashes of Herbert Howells and Ralph Vaughan Williams are buried in the church where their music has contributed so much to daily services and great state occasions.

<b>Duruflxc3xa9 |</b> Requiem, Op 9

<b>Howells |</b> Take him, earth, for cherishing

<b>Moore, P |</b> Three Prayers of Dietrich Bonhoeffer - Roderick Williams/Robert Quinne

<b>Tavener |</b> The peace that surpasseth understanding

<b>Vaughan Williams |</b> Lord, Thou has been our refuge - Christine Rice/Caroline Dearn

• Genre: Classical
• Product Type: AUDIO CD
• Barcode: 34571280202

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