Wainwright, Rufus - Dream requiem (Black vinyl clamshell with 16 pp booklet) 2LP
“My whole life suddenly changed while listening to Verdi’s Requiem Mass for the first time at the tender age of 13…The experience both represented the death of my childhood innocence AND the birth and awakening of my artistic self, thus beginning my personal lifelong spiritual quest to seek out beauty no matter what the cost.”
Rufus Wainwright
Rufus Wainwright is a musical polymath who occupies a unique and beloved place in our musical lives - singer, songwriter and composer of two operas and a musical. His latest work, Dream Requiem, is an epic work for orchestra, chorus, soprano and narrator. It received its world premiere in June this year in Paris with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France and the chorus and children’s choir of Radio France conducted by Mikko Franck with Meryl Streep as the narrator and soprano Anna Prohaska. On 17th January 2025, Warner Classics will release the live recording from the premiere.
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