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Rufus Wainwright Dream Requiem 2LP

Rufus Wainwright

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SKU:
WCLP250061
UPC:
5021732500618

Coming January 17, 2025 pre-order your copy today! Orders with both pre-order and in stock items will have all in stock items shipped immediately!

World Premiere Recording on Double LP!
New Composition Featuring Narration by Meryl Streep!

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Rufus Wainwright's Dream Requiem is an extremely prestigious project, the result of a commission from major cultural institutions in the US, UK, and Europe. This world premiere recording features a new composition by the legendary, Grammy-nominated musician, who has collaborated with the who's who of the pop music world. With narration by Meryl Streep, the project will be followed by a worldwide tour starting in January 2025. Written during the pandemic, it's a requiem "for the people we have lost in this crisis, for the past from which we are cut off and for the future to which we do not yet know how to connect, a Requiem for human contact, solidarity and the human voice that have all become dangerous and contagious"; It's also a reflection on environmental collapse and the increase in the number of natural disasters.

The text of Dream Requiem weaves together words from the Latin Mass for the Dead — as used by his hero Verdi — with Lord Byron's apocalyptic poem "Darkness," written after the volcanic eruption of Mount Tambora in 1815 and which brought about "the year without summer."

Features

  • Double LP

Musicians

Meryl Streep narrator
Anna Prohaska soprano
Maîtrise de Radio France
Chœur de Radio France
Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France
Mikko Franck conductor

Selections

  1. Darkness I
  2. Requiem Aeternam
  3. Lux Perpetua
  4. Kyrie Eleison
  5. Sequentia I. Dies Irae
  6. Darkness II
  7. Sequentia II. Mors Stupebit
  8. Sequentia III. Rex Tremendae
  9. Sequentia IV. Ingemisco
  10. Sequentia V. Confutatis
  11. Darkness III
  12. Offertorium
  13. Sanctus
  14. Agnus Dei
  15. Lux Aeterna
  16. Darkness IV
  17. In Paradisum
  18. Applause

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