Elegy - A Selection of Sacred & Secular Choral Works

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POULENC / MOZART / BEETHOVEN / HINDEMITH / DURUFLE / BRAHMS / ANONYMOUS
Elegy - A Selection of Sacred & Secular Choral Works
Robert Shaw / Atlanta Symphony Orchestra & Chorus

[ Telarc Records / CD ]

Release Date: Wednesday 24 July 2002

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Telarc presents a poignant compilations disc of songs, laments, chants, and single movements from large sacred works-all conducted by the late Robert Shaw-that evoke peace, reflection and remembrance.

All of the thirteen tracks in this beautiful collection are taken from a wide variety of previously released recordings made for Telarc by the late Robert Shaw, the Dean of American choral conductors. The featured compositions include single movements from large works for chorus and orchestra (such as the Requiems of Mozart, Faure, and Durufle) as well as works for unaccompanied voices (such as the "Ave Maria" from Quattro Pezzi Sacri by Poulenc.) The recording opens with the serene sounds of Gregorian chant: six verses of the Stabat Mater dolorosa, followed by the "Fac ut ardeat" movement from the Stabat Mater by Poulenc.

Secular works featured on Elegy include Beethoven's Elegiac Song; the Schicksalslied (Song of Destiny) by Brahms; a movement from Hindemith's poignant When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd; and the "Bois muertri" from Poulenc's Un soir de neige (Night of Snow). The recording closes, fittingly, with Schoenberg's eloquent a cappella choral work, Friede auf Erden (Peace on Earth).

Tracks:

1. Gregorian Chant: Stabat Mater dolorosa (six verses)

2. Francis Poulenc: Stabat Mater: VIII. Fac ut ardeat

3. W.A. Mozart: Ave verum corpus, K. 618

4. Mozart: Requiem; IV. Offertorium: Nr. 2: Hostias

5. Gabriel Faure: Requiem, Op. 48; III. Sanctus

6. Maurice Durufle: Requiem, Op. 9; VII. Lux aeterna

7. Poulenc: Mass in G major: IV. Benedictus

8. Giuseppe Verdi: Quattro Pezzi Sacri; I. Ave Maria

9. Poulenc: Un soir de neige: III. Bois meurtri

10. Ludwig van Beethoven: Elegiac Song

11. Paul Hindemith: When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd: IX. Death Carol, Come, lovely and soothing Death

12. Johannes Brahms: Schicksalslied, Op. 54 (Song of Destiny)

13. Arnold Schoenberg: Friede auf Erden (Peace on Earth)