Foulds, John - A World Requiem - BBC Symphony Orchestra

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4 AV 5 MÖJLIGA I BETYG I DAGENS NYHETER

4 AV 5 MÖJLIGA I BETYG I SYDSVENSKAN

"Tolkningen övertygar verkligen"
(Sundsvalls Tidning)

This is a world premiere recording of this neglected masterpiece.

With international soloists (Jeanne-Michèle Charbonnet, Catherine Wyn-Rogers, Stuart Skelton and Gerald Finley), massed choirs, the BBC Symphony Orchestra, off-stage fanfares and the great organ of the Royal Albert Hall, this performance presents music on a huge scale. Very different in nature from Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem of forty years later, Foulds’s A World Requiem is nevertheless a significant forerunner in its deeply pacifist inspiration, its use of mixed, only partly liturgical text, its varied instrumental forces, and its relation to the 1914-18 War. Indeed it dared to offer itself as a public statement as a focus for a national or even an international act of remembrance. Its relation to war is much more direct as it was composed in the immediate aftermath of the conflict. Foulds stated that it 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.