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David Bednall Requiem and other choral works
The Chamber Choir of St Mary’s Calne
Philip Dukes Viola
David Bednall Organ
Edward Whiting Director
19 in stock
Track List
Requiem
54:26Prelude
4:30Introit
6:16Kyrie
3:04Domine Jesu Christe
8:24Sanctus
1:39Benedictus
1:39Pie Jesu
1:18Agnus Dei
2:46Lux æterna
2:39Communion – Interlude
7:16Libera me
3:04In paradisum
4:22O come let us sing
1:56Salvator mundi
4:19Let all the world
3:45Total playing time: 64:29
Production credits
Recorded in Marlborough College chapel on 6–8 May 2009
Recording producer and engineer: Gary Cole
Sample audio extracts
Total playing time: 64:29
Reviews
‘…David Bednall is announced as an important and individual voice…Watch this space…’ Editor’s Choice, Gramophone, May 2007
‘Mixing imagination with musical traditions, David Bednall’s recently completed and extensive Requiem is one of the most enjoyable British choral works to have emerged for decades. Avoiding modern atonality, it is a score that challenges singers and fascinates the ear. The accompaniment for viola and organ is so skilfully deployed you feel it is a chamber orchestra. The girls from the Wiltshire school of St Mary’s, Calne, are superb by any standard and Bednall’s organ playing is thrilling.’ Yorkshire Post March 2010
‘…this pungent, turbulent style; it is music in a perpetual state of climax…’ BBC Music Magazine, March 2007
‘David Bednall has been hailed as a major new voice in choral music. This recording presents his largest scale work to date – Requiem for upper voices, solo viola and organ – performed by the dedicatees, The Chamber Choir of St Mary’s Calne, and internationally-renowed violist Philip Dukes – “Great Britain’s most outstanding solo viola player’ The Times
