Charles Villiers Stanford: Requiem

Charles Villiers Stanford: Requiem

CDA68418 (Hyperion Records, CD)

FIRST RELEASE (5 May 2023)
Tracks: 30
Booklet pages: 18
℗ 2023 Hyperion Records Ltd
© 2023 Hyperion Records Ltd
Main country of recording: United Kingdom
Reviewer: Gerald Fenech
Review of Charles Villiers Stanford: Requiem published on 9 July 2023

Carolyn Sampson, soprano
Marta Fontanals-Simmons, mezzo-soprano
James Way, tenor
Ross Ramgobin, baritone
University of Birmingham Voices
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Martyn Brabbins, conductor

Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924):

Requiem for solos, chorus and orchestra, Op 63 (1896)

Introit
1 Requiem aeternam -
2 Te decet hymnus -
3 Requiem aeternam

Kyrie
4 Kyrie I -
5 Kyrie II
6 Kyrie III

Gradual
7 Requiem aeternam -
8 In memoria aeterna

Sequence
9 Dies irae -
10 Tuba mirum -
11 Liber scriptus proferetur
12 Quid sum miser?
13 Quem patronem rogaturus? -
14 Rex tremendae -
15 Recordare, Jesu pie
16 Quaerens me -
17 Iuste iudex ultionis -
18 Inter oves locum praesta
19 Confutatis maledictis
20 Lacrimosa dies illa -
21 Pie Jesu Domine

Offertorium
22 Domine Jesu Christe -
23 Quam olim Abrahae promisisti
24 Hostias et preces tibi -
25 Transire ad vitam

Sanctus
26 Sanctus -
27 Benedictus -
28 Osanna

Agnus Dei et Lux aeterna
29 Agnus Dei -
30 Lux aeterna

Recorded in association with a live performance from Birmingham's Symphony Hall in 2022, this account of Stanford's Requiem rescues a magnificent work from wholly unjustified neglect.

Recorded 2-3 July 2022 in Symphony Hall, Birmingham, UK.