Requiem (Howells)
from A Song of Farewell (SIGCD281)
1 Salvator mundi [2'37]
2 Psalm 23 [2'47]
3 Requiem aeternam I [4'53]
4 Psalm 121 [2'59]
5 Requiem aeternam II [5'08]
6 I heard a voice from heaven [5'38]
24 minutes 2 seconds 6 tracks
'Any disc subtitled 'Music of Mourning & Consolation' is not going to be a bundle of laughs. But Paul McCreesh has devised such a satisfying programme of mostly short a cappella pieces that the effect ...
'The raison d'être of the disc is Howells's Requiem and it is impressive as the core of a powerful programme. Going back to the opening Gibbons hymn 'Drop, drop slow tears', it then seemed right. Some ...
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