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Composer:
John Foulds

Artist(s):
Jeanne Michele Charbonnet
Catherine Wyn-Rogers

Conductor:
Leon Botstein

Background: Adopted by the British Legion as the centrepiece of its Armistice Night celebrations from 1923 to 1926 at the Royal Albert Hall but not heard since then, John Foulds's heartfelt memorial to the war dead of all nations is here revived under conductor Leon Botstein in a spectacular recreation of those original Festival of Remembrance performances.

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.

CATALOGUE NR: CHSA5058
RECORD LABEL: Chandos
FORMAT: Hybrid 2 SACD Set
PRICE: £ 25.99 including VAT, or £ 22.12 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 31-Dec-2007

COMPOSER: John Foulds
TITLE: A World Requiem
ORCHESTRA: BBC Symphony Orchestra
CONDUCTOR: Leon Botstein
ARTISTS: Jeanne Michele Charbonnet   Catherine Wyn-Rogers   Stuart Skelton   Gerald Finley

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: live concert recording

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