Maderna, B: Requiem

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The young Maderna conceived his hour-long requiem while interned during the war by the SS, and the work was long thought lost. Luckily, this intensely moving work survives, encompassing a vast... — Classical Music, January 2016, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 25th Sep 2015
Catalogue No: C5231
Label: Capriccio
Length: 59 minutes

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Maderna, B: Requiem, Pt. 1

Work length32:59

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Bernhard Berchtold, Renatus Mészár
MDR Rundfunkchor, Robert-Schumann-Philharmonie
Frank Beermann

Requiem

Track length3:40

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Kyrie Elesion

Track length5:44

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Dies Irae

Track length23:35

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Maderna, B: Requiem, Pt. 2

Work length26:51

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Bernhard Berchtold, Diana Tomsche, Renatus Mészár, Kathrin Goring
MDR Rundfunkchor, Robert-Schumann-Philharmonie
Frank Beermann

Domine Jesu

Track length2:24

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Sanctus

Track length2:12

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Benedictus

Track length5:32

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Agnus Dei

Track length4:20

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Lux Aeterna

Track length3:00

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Libera Me

Track length9:23

$2.00

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Bruno Maderna’s Requiem was long considered lost and was indeed only premiered in the Teatro la Fenice in Venice in November 2009 – about 36 years after his death.

In 1943, Maderna was called up for military service and fought as a partisan against Italy’s erstwhile allies, the Germans. He was taken prisoner by the SS, who interrogated him in Dachau and released him shortly afterwards. ‘At that moment, it was the only possibility to write a requiem and then to die’, Maderna said later. The Requiem suggests an intensive study of the models in the genre, e.g. those by Giuseppe Verdi and Hector Berlioz. At the same time, as a ‘War Requiem’ the work is a pacifist manifesto.

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Classical Music January 2016

The young Maderna conceived his hour-long requiem while interned during the war by the SS, and the work was long thought lost. Luckily, this intensely moving work survives, encompassing a vast emotional terrain...if some of the solo singing and the German radio sound are not on the level of the best of today’s choral recordings, this is nevertheless an important release.

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