Harris / Horo: Requiem for the Fallen

 
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ROSS HARRIS / HOROMONA HORO
Harris / Horo: Requiem for the Fallen
Voices NZ / NZ String Quartet / Richard Greager (tenor) Horomona Horo (taonga puoro)

[ Atoll Records New Zealand / CD ]

Release Date: Tuesday 1 August 2017

Requiem for the Fallen honours the memory of soldiers who died in the First World War.

Poetry by Vincent O'Sullivan is woven through the Latin of the Requiem Mass and carries many homespun NZ references.

Horomona Horo's taonga puoro improvisations add a haunting beauty that could only be from Aotearoa.

With:
Voices New Zealand Chamber Choir
The New Zealand String Quartet

Horomona Horo (taonga puoro)
Richard Greagar (tenor)
Conducted by Karen Grylls

Text: Vincent O'Sulllivan
Music: Ross Harris & Horomona Horo

Tracks:

Introduction (Maimai Apakura)
Requiem Aeternam
Libera nos
Gradual
Sanctus
Agnus Dei
Dies irae
Memento Mori
in paradisum
Pax vobis. Et cum spiritu tuo

View the trailer (via YouTube)