"Requiem" by Rowland Lee (7/9): VIII - Libera Me: IX - Music, When Soft Voices Die ... (Shelley)

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"Requiem" by Rowland Lee (7/9): VIII - Libera Me; IX - Music, When Soft Voices Die ... (Shelley)

REQUIEM" - by Rowland Lee

Composed 2003. Published by Peters Edition

Text selected from the Requiem Mass, D.H. Lawrence, Percy Bysshe Shelley and the New Testament (I Corinthians 13)

The first performance was given in St. Martin in the Fields, London, December 2003.
This performance was recorded in Maestro Yuri Temirkanov Grand Philharmonic Hall, St. Petersburg, Russia, on 11 February, 2011.

Sarah Connolly - Mezzo-soprano
Andrew Bain - Tenor
The Mikhailovsky Opera Choir
The St. Petersburg Academic Symphony Orchestra
Rowland Lee - Conductor

I REQUIEM AETERNAM: KYRIE ELEISON - Soloists and Chorus

II DIES IRAE - Mezzo-Soprano and Chorus

III PIANO (D.H. Lawrence) - Tenor Solo
(Part III had to be omitted in St. Petersburg due to a time constraint)

IV SANCTUS - Chorus

V BENEDICTUS - Mezzo-Soprano and Female Semi-Chorus

VI HOSANNA - Chorus

VII AGNUS DEI - Tenor and Chorus

VIII LIBERA ME
Mezzo-Soprano and chorus

IX MUSIC, WHEN SOFT VOICES DIE (Percy Bysshe ShelleyShelley) - Mezzo-Soprano and Chorus

"MUSIC, when soft voices die,
Vibrates in the memory;
Odours, when sweet violets sicken,
Live within the sense they quicken.

Rose leaves, when the rose is dead,
Are heap'd for the belovèd's bed;
And so thy thoughts, when thou art gone,
Love itself shall slumber on."

X LUX AETERNA - Chorus

XI HOSTIAS and EPILOGUE (I Corinthians, 13) - Soloists and Chorus

Paintings:
Joseph Mallord William Turner - Sunset over a Lake
Pre-Raphaelite paintings (various)

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