Requiem: Ode to Peace
(2012)for two boy sopranos, counter-tenor, baritone, male choir (with boy sopranos) and orchestra
Duration: 75'
Music Text
Religious texts in 40 languages and a poem by Christian Lehnert (G) engraved on the Dresden 'Friedensglocke'
Scoring
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Publisher
Sikorski
Territory
This work is available from Boosey & Hawkes
/ Sikorski for the world.
Availability
World Premiere
11/02/2012
Frauenkirche, Dresden
Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden / Vladimir Jurowski
Programme Note
Commissioned by Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden and Foundation Frauenkirche Dresden on the occasion of the anniversary of the destruction of the Frauenkirche
World Premiere 11 February 2012, Dresden
Richard Pittsinger, Jack Keller (boa sopranos) – Maarten Engeltjes (countertenor) – Mark Stone (baritone) – Dresden Staatsoprenchor – St. Paul’s Cathedral Choir London – St. Thomas Choir of Boys New York – Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden – Vladimir Yurovsky (conductor)
- Post silentium (Praeludium – Requiem aeternam)
- Psalm 134 (Ein Lied im höhern Chor)
- Vater unser
- Kyrie
- Father Judges Gebet
- Psalm 100
- Die Verheißung (Apostelgeschichte 2:17-21)
- De profundis (Psalm 130)
- Gradual – Sh’ma Israel
- Tuba mirum
- Mizmor l’David (Psalm 23)
- Lacrimosa
- Libera me – Ana Beko’ach
- In silentium (Ode to Peace)
- Anrufung der Schutzengel
- Frieden, wo Gott wohnt
17-18. Amen
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