New Album Releases: VERDI - REQUIEM (Bach Choir, David Hill)

Artist:
Bach Choir
David Hill

Genre:
Classical

Total Time:
79:43

Record Label:
Nimbus Alliance

Purchasing Links:
CD, MP3, Apple Music

Release Date
April 7, 2023

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Product Description: Who would not wish to perform Verdi's Requiem in the composer's masterful original orchestration! The astonishing range of orchestral colour, from the moments of high drama to the most tender, give Verdi's masterpiece it's unique power and aura. When David Hill suggested that I create a new orchestration for two pianos, organ and percussion for The Bach Choir, I immediately saw the potential of an orchestration that would have a distinctive sound world of it's own, not a watered-down reduction of Verdi's original. Such an orchestration would also make the work accessible to choirs who either could not afford the full orchestra, or would not have the space to accommodate it. Further discussions with David, who had the previous year commissioned me to write Prelude and Passacaglia for organ solo, gave valuable insights into how the organ could replicate a great range of orchestral colours that would contrast and augment the dynamic brilliance of the pianos and percussion. As work progressed, I found more and more ways of realising Verdi's intentions with these minimal resources, such as replicating Verdi's frequent string tremolandos by overlapping the piano tremolos in a way that, rather than cancelling each other out, produce a strange pianistic murmuring. Having six keyboard hands available generally meant that Verdi's contrapuntal writing, especially in the Sanctus, is fully reproduced, unlike a single piano reduction. The percussion part, by virtue of being one player, requires the player to switch energetically from timpani to bass drum, and reassuringly few notes of the original were sacrificed in the course of doing so. The choral parts remain exactly as in the original, and are replicated from the current Novello vocal score. I am indebted to David Hill for commissioning this arrangement, and for his generous and expert notes and suggestions for the organ part. [Richard Blackford]

TRACK LIST:

1 . Requiem: I. Requiem & Kyrie Eleison (orchestrated for two pianos, organ & percussion by Richard Blackford) Helena Dix, Catherine Carby, Luis Gomes, Jihoon Kim, Iain Farrington, Anna Tilbrook, Philip Scriven & Peter Fry (08:12)

2 . Requiem: IIa, Dies Irae (orchestrated for two pianos, organ & percussion by Richard Blackford) Iain Farrington, Anna Tilbrook, Philip Scriven & Peter Fry (02:14)

3 . Requiem: IIb. Tuba mirum (orchestrated for two pianos, organ & percussion by Richard Blackford) Jihoon Kim, Iain Farrington, Anna Tilbrook, Philip Scriven & Peter Fry (03:14)

4 . Requiem: IIc. Liber scriptus (orchestrated for two pianos, organ & percussion by Richard Blackford) Catherine Carby, Iain Farrington, Anna Tilbrook, Philip Scriven & Peter Fry (05:05)

5 . Requiem: IId. Quid sum miser (orchestrated for two pianos, organ & percussion by Richard Blackford) Helena Dix, Catherine Carby, Luis Gomes, Iain Farrington, Anna Tilbrook, Philip Scriven & Peter Fry (03:41)

6 . Requiem: IIe. Rex tremendae (orchestrated for two pianos, organ & percussion by Richard Blackford) Helena Dix, Catherine Carby, Luis Gomes, Jihoon Kim, Iain Farrington, Anna Tilbrook, Philip Scriven & Peter Fry (03:33)

7 . Requiem: IIf. Recordare (orchestrated for two pianos, organ & percussion by Richard Blackford) Helena Dix, Catherine Carby, Iain Farrington, Anna Tilbrook, Philip Scriven & Peter Fry (03:57)

8 . Requiem: IIg. Ingemisco (orchestrated for two pianos, organ & percussion by Richard Blackford) Luis Gomes, Iain Farrington, Anna Tilbrook, Philip Scriven & Peter Fry (03:21)

9 . Requiem: IIh. Confutatis (orchestrated for two pianos, organ & percussion by Richard Blackford) Jihoon Kim, Iain Farrington, Anna Tilbrook, Philip Scriven & Peter Fry (05:01)

10 . Requiem: IIi. Lacrymosa (orchestrated for two pianos, organ & percussion by Richard Blackford) Helena Dix, Catherine Carby, Luis Gomes, Jihoon Kim, Iain Farrington, Anna Tilbrook, Philip Scriven & Peter Fry (05:18)

11 . Requiem: III. Domine Jesu (orchestrated for two pianos, organ & percussion by Richard Blackford) Helena Dix, Catherine Carby, Luis Gomes, Jihoon Kim, Iain Farrington, Anna Tilbrook, Philip Scriven & Peter Fry (09:25)

12 . Requiem: IV. Sanctus (orchestrated for two pianos, organ & percussion by Richard Blackford) Iain Farrington, Anna Tilbrook, Philip Scriven & Peter Fry (02:32)

13 . Requiem: V. Agnus Dei (orchestrated for two pianos, organ & percussion by Richard Blackford) Helena Dix, Catherine Carby, Iain Farrington, Anna Tilbrook, Philip Scriven & Peter Fry (05:08)

14 . Requiem: VI. Lux Aeterna (orchestrated for two pianos, organ & percussion by Richard Blackford) Catherine Carby, Luis Gomes, Jihoon Kim, Iain Farrington, Anna Tilbrook, Philip Scriven & Peter Fry (05:48)

15. Requiem: VII. Libera Me (orchestrated for two pianos, organ & percussion by Richard Blackford) Helena Dix, Iain Farrington, Anna Tilbrook, Philip Scriven & Peter Fry (13:22)

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