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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.