L' Inviti Singers, L' Inviti Sinfonia & Paul Brough - Christopher Wood: Requiem (2017) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist
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01. Requiem: Kyrie eleison-Requiem aeternam (Orch. J. Rathbone)
02. Requiem: Dies irae-Tuba mirum-Liber scriptus (Orch. J. Rathbone)
03. Requiem: Quid sum miser tunc dicturus?-Rex tremendae (Orch. J. Rathbone)
04. Requiem: Recordare-Ingemisco (Orch. J. Rathbone)
05. Requiem: Confutatis-Lacrimosa-Pie Jesu (Orch. J. Rathbone)
06. Requiem: Offertorio. Domine Jesu Christe (Orch. J. Rathbone)
07. Requiem: Sanctus-Benedictus (Orch. J. Rathbone)
08. Requiem: Agnus Dei (Orch. J. Rathbone)
09. Requiem: Lux aeterna (Orch. J. Rathbone)
10. Requiem: Libera me (Orch. J. Rathbone)


This work by self-proclaimed ""non-composer"" Christopher Wood pays homage to the grief felt around the UK following the passing of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother in 2002. A former cancer surgeon who now develops life-saving cancer drugs, Wood is a pharmaceutical entrepreneur who had, until 2002, never composed a note of music. But when the Queen Mother passed away, Wood was moved by the people who queued for hours to pay their respects, and felt a strong connection to their grief and sadness, but also their honour, gratitude and patriotic pride. Having been raised in a musical family - Woods mother was a soprano in the Welsh National Opera chorus, and he has sung in choirs for his whole life - it is perhaps not surprising that he turned to music as a form of expression. Written around a busy schedule managing a US pharmaceutical company, Woods Requiem took eight years to compose. The Requiem was finally recorded and premiered at St Johns Smith Square, in 2012

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