Pulitzer Prize-winner and MacArthur fellow John Harbison has composed a Requiem for our times- a moving choral work that incorporates the composer's distinctive sensibilities while drawing deeply on the tradition of Latin sacred music. Completed in the wake of the 9/11 attacks, Harbison's Requiem is full of dramatic passages from singers and musicians alike, with abundant opportunities for vocal soloists, brass and percussion to shine. "I wanted my piece to have a sense of the inexorability of the passage of time," the composer says, "for good and ill, of the commonality of love and loss." Giancarlo Guerrero is the six-time Grammy-winning music director of the Nashville Symphony, music director of the Wroclaw Philharmonic in Poland, and principal guest conductor of the Gulbenkian Orchestra in Lisbon, Portugal. A passionate proponent of new music, he has championed a number of America's most respected composers through recordings, commissions, and eight world premieres with the Nashville Symphony, including the Grammy-winning recording of Michael Daugherty's Tales of Hemingway.
2 Requiem, Pt. 1: II. Sequence I. Dies Irae 0:04:18
3 Requiem, Pt. 1: III. Sequence II. Tuba Mirum 0:02:23
4 Requiem, Pt. 1: IV. Sequence III. Liber Scriptus 0:01:54
5 Requiem, Pt. 1: V. Sequence IV. Quid Sum Miser 0:02:46
6 Requiem, Pt. 1: VI. Sequence V. Recordare 0:06:53
7 Requiem, Pt. 1: VII. Sequence VI. Confutatis - Lac 0:06:36
8 Requiem, Pt. 2: VIII. Offertorium 0:07:13
9 Requiem, Pt. 2: IX. Sanctus 0:03:41
10 Requiem, Pt. 2: X. Agnus Dei 0:03:09
11 Requiem, Pt. 2: XI. Lux Aeterna 0:02:58
12 Requiem, Pt. 2: XII. Libera Me 0:03:45
13 Requiem, Pt. 2: XIII. in Paradisum 0:02:15
Pulitzer Prize-winner and MacArthur fellow John Harbison has composed a Requiem for our times- a moving choral work that incorporates the composer's distinctive sensibilities while drawing deeply on the tradition of Latin sacred music. Completed in the wake of the 9/11 attacks, Harbison's Requiem is full of dramatic passages from singers and musicians alike, with abundant opportunities for vocal soloists, brass and percussion to shine. "I wanted my piece to have a sense of the inexorability of the passage of time," the composer says, "for good and ill, of the commonality of love and loss." Giancarlo Guerrero is the six-time Grammy-winning music director of the Nashville Symphony, music director of the Wroclaw Philharmonic in Poland, and principal guest conductor of the Gulbenkian Orchestra in Lisbon, Portugal. A passionate proponent of new music, he has championed a number of America's most respected composers through recordings, commissions, and eight world premieres with the Nashville Symphony, including the Grammy-winning recording of Michael Daugherty's Tales of Hemingway.
