Description
Title: Requiem / Otcenas
Artist: Jane Marsh
Label: Capriccio
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 845221054544
Genre: Classical
Release Date: 2022-03-04
Number of Discs: 1
It took Frank Martin a long time to heed his deep-seated inner calling to write a Requiem: ”What I have tried to express here is the clear will to accept death; to make peace with it.” The Requiem was composed in 1971/72, Martin utilizes the whole bandwidth of orchestral sound and explores all opportunities for interplay among the vocalists, as well. Leoš Janácek”s setting of the Otcenáš, the Lord”s Prayer, is not a conventionally religious work. The Czech composer was more interested in it”s social aspects than any theological musings. Conductor Leif Segerstam, Chief conductor of ORF Vienna radio Symphony Orchestra from 1975-1983 loved to surprise his public with non-mainstream repertoire. Two of these live recordings are now restored, re-mastered and first time published for the future.
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