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And the daylight o’er the pavement

quite has faded,

And the strong [death-march]

enwraps me.

The moon gives you light

And the bugles and drums

give you music,

And my heart, O my soldiers,

My heart gives you love.

That text is from renown poet Walt

Whitman. Now listen to the baritone in

the Lacrimosa — Pie Jesu, with another

Whitman text:

Vigil strange I kept

on the ﬁeld one night;

When you my son and my comrade

dropt at my side that day…

Long there and then in vigil I stood,

dimly around me

the battleﬁeld spreading,

Vigil wondrous and vigil sweet there

in the fragrant silent night,

Passing sweet hours,

immortal and mystic hours

with you dearest comrade

Not a tear, not a word,

Vigil of silence, love and death,

Vigil for you my son and my soldier

Don’t miss the Sanctus, with wildly

ringing bells, rolling drums, strings,

and the tenor singing the glory of

the Almighty in alternation with the

choir. The Hosanna is extraordinary,

with voices, percussion and brass, a

veritable song of praise, followed by the

Benedictus.

The Agnus Dei, Lay this Body Down,

sung by the mezzo soprano, is emi-

nently touching. The text is by Michael

Harper.

Can’t you see

What love and heartache’s done to me

I’m not the same as I used to be

This is my last affair

Two other illustrious poets are

featured, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and

an American poet identiﬁed in the text

as H.D. (Hilda Doolittle). A touching

anonymous Negro Spiritual is sung by

the baritone.

The final Lux Æterna is sung at

ppp volume by the choir. It is a gentle

conclusion, peaceful, in which the fear

of the Final Judgement is resolved in an

act of faith and hope on the part of souls

awaiting their Maker.

This, then, is a 21

Century Requiem

that will put you through an entire range

of emotions, and orient your reﬂection

toward the passage from temporal to

eternal life, at least as presented by the

Christian church. First performed in

November 2001, this Requiem can be

classed among the great ones: Mozart,

Berlioz, Verdi, brahms, Dvorak, and

Fauré, and closer to our own day those

of British composers Benjamin Brit-

ten, John Rutter…and Andrew Lloyd

Webber, whose Pie Jesu haunts the ﬁrst-

time listener long after it ends.

At the summit of his art at the age

of 50, Richard Danielpour is one of the

cream of contemporary composers, and

his celebrity did not begin with this

work. He has penned other music that

has been much played and recorded,

and has known major success: operas,

concertos, symphonies, ballets, chamber

music, and other genres.

The CD booklet is generous with

details on the composer as well as on the

orchestra, the choir and their respective

conductors, Carl St. Clair and John

Alexander. If this music is new to you,

that is more than useful.

Suite Española

Frühbeck de Burgos/New

Philharmonia

FIM XR24 068

Rejskind: This recording is from late

1967, the golden age of Decca (known in

North America as London for reasons of

trade mark conﬂict). It had not yet been

swallowed up by the Polygram/Philips

empire, in which it would become

merely a brand name. And it was busy

making new recordings of the classical

repertoire in the then distinctive ffrr

(Full Frequency Range Recording) style.

The stereo LP was a mere decade old,

and not all the treasury of music had yet

been redone.

At the same time Decca had not yet

begun playing it safe, recording familiar

warhorses that could be counted on to

sell in large numbers. This recording is

an unusual one, and one I suspect few

companies would tackle today. A shame,

because it is exceptional.

Isaac Albéniz is one of Spain’s most

recognized composers of the end of the

Century and the early 20

. If his

music reﬂected far more inﬂuences than

those of his native Catalonia, it can be

explained in large part by the fact that

he ran away from home at the age of

13 and toured Costa Rica, the United

States, England, Germany, Belgium and

Hungary. Of course by the time he got

to Belgium he was no longer a runaway

teenager, and in fact he was able to get a

bursary from no less a personality than

the King of Spain to study at the Brus-

sels Conservatory. He later studied with

Vincent d’Indy, Paul Dukas, and…oh

yes, Franz Liszt. You would expect his

music to be thoroughly cosmopolitan.

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