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Contents:
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Max Reger |
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| 1. |
Aria - O Mensch bewein dein' Sünde gross (adagio assei) |
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[4.51] |
| 2. |
Crucem Tuam adoramus Domine - Chant |
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[2.12] |
| 3. |
Crux Fidelis, inter omnes Arbor una nobilis - Chant |
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[4.22] |
| 4. |
De profundis clamavi ad te, Domine - Chant |
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[3.03] |
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Dmitri Shostakovich
- Requiem for String Orchestra Op. 144a |
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(Quartet No. 15 arr. Misha Rachlevsky) |
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| 5. |
Elegy (adagio) |
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[11.40] |
| 6. |
Serenade (adagio) |
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[6.04] |
| 7. |
Intermezzo (adagio) |
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[1.49] |
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Nocturne (adagio) |
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[4.49] |
| 9. |
Funeral March (adagio molto) |
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[4.38] |
| 10. |
Epilogue (adagio) |
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[6.23] |
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Improperium expectavit cormeum - Chant |
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[3.05] |
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Christus factus est pro nobis - Chant |
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[3.48] |
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13. |
Choral in B minor (arr. Rudolf Lutz) |
César Franck |
[12.57] |
DDD Total Time = 70.24 - Recorded at: St Mangen Church, St Gallen, Switzerland
This is one of the most beautiful albums of the year - a record of deeply-moving
Music for Good Friday, with three masterpieces for large string orchestra, including new
recordings of Shostakovich’s “Requiem” - the outstandingly fine
transcription by Mikhail Rachlevsky - and Max Reger’s wonderful fantasy on a
Chorale-Prelude by Johann Sebastian Bach, alongside the world premiere recording of Rudolf
Lutz’s superb version for string orchestra of Cesar Franck’s Second Chorale.
As if this collection of great and solemn music was not enough, this fine live recording
includes some of the most appropriate and suitable Gregorian Chant, magnificently sung by
the Choir of “Schola Vocales Basilienses”.
This affecting concert was planned by the greatly-admired Rudolf Lutz for many months, and
the quality of the string playing, and the excellence of the singing, he extracted from
his outstanding orchestra and gifted choir made this one of the highlights of the Swiss
concert season for the first half of 1996.
Lamentationes - a splendid programme of Memorial music, much of it unknown to the general
music lover yet each item by a truly great composer - makes a solemn and moving album of
the finest musical quality, magnificently recorded.
Page revised 27.06.03
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