Leon Botstein, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Jeanne-Michele Charbonnet - Foulds: A World Requiem, Op. 60 (2008) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist

CD1
01. A World Requiem, Op. 60, Part I: I. Requiem (Baritone, Chorus)
02. A World Requiem, Op. 60, Part I: II. Pronuntiatio (Baritone, Chorus)
03. A World Requiem, Op. 60, Part I: III. Confessio (Baritone)
04. A World Requiem, Op. 60, Part I: IV. Jubilatio (Chorus)
05. A World Requiem, Op. 60, Part I: V. Audite (Baritone)
06. A World Requiem, Op. 60, Part I: VI. Pax (Soprano, Chorus)
07. A World Requiem, Op. 60, Part I: VII. Consolatio (Mezzo-Soprano)
08. A World Requiem, Op. 60, Part I: XIII. Refutatio (Baritone)
09. A World Requiem, Op. 60, Part I: IX. Lux Veritatis (Chorus)
10. A World Requiem, Op. 60, Part I: X. Requiem (Mezzo-Soprano, Baritone, Chorus)

CD2
01. A World Requiem, Op. 60, Part II: XI. Laudamus (Soprano, Chorus)
02. A World Requiem, Op. 60, Part II: XII. Elysium (Soprano, Tenor, Chorus)
03. A World Requiem, Op. 60, Part II: XIII. In Pace (Tenor, Soprano)
04. A World Requiem, Op. 60, Part II: Hymn of the Redeemed (Chorus)
05. A World Requiem, Op. 60, Part II: XIV. Angeli (Tenor, Chorus)
06. A World Requiem, Op. 60, Part II: XV. Vox Dei (Tenor, Soprano, Chorus)
07. A World Requiem, Op. 60, Part II: XVI. Adventus (Tenor, Mezzo-Soprano, Chorus)
08. A World Requiem, Op. 60, Part II: XVII. Vigilate (Baritone)
09. A World Requiem, Op. 60, Part II: XVIII. Promissio et Invocatio (Tenor, Soprano, Mezzo-Soprano, Baritone, Chorus)
10. A World Requiem, Op. 60, Part II: XIX. Benedictio (Baritone, Mezzo-Soprano, Tenor, Soprano)
11. A World Requiem, Op. 60, Part II: XX. Consummatus (Baritone, Mezzo-Soprano, Tenor, Soprano, Chorus)

This massive work was adopted by the British Legion as the centrepiece of its Armistice Night celebrations from 1923 to 1926, usually held at the Royal Albert Hall, but has not been heard since. John Foulds’s heartfelt memorial to the war dead of all nations is here revived by the BBC Symphony Orchestra under the American conductor Leon Botstein. This premiere recording of the work was made live at the concert performance on Remembrance Day 2007. An international cast includes Jeanne-Michèle Charbonnet, Catherine Wyn-Rogers, Stuart Skelton and Gerald Finley together with massed choirs, off-stage fanfares, and the great organ of the Royal Albert Hall. Foulds stated that the work was conceived as ‘a tribute to the memory of the Dead – a message of consolation to the bereaved of all countries’ and in its ardent invocation of peace it leans towards the mystical.

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