℗ 2020 Delphian Records
Released | August 28, 2020 |
Duration | 55m 41s |
Record Label | Delphian Records |
Catalogue No. | DCD34240 |
Genre | Classical (Choral) |
Alex Woolf: Requiem
Various Artists
Available in 96 kHz / 24-bit AIFF, FLAC high resolution audio formats
Requiem
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1.1
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Introit
Alex Woolf; Vox Luna; Alex Woolf; Philip Higham; Anthony Gray |
4:26 | |||
1.2
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Kyrie
Alex Woolf; Vox Luna; Alex Woolf; Philip Higham; Anthony Gray |
7:33 | |||
1.3
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The Fall
Alex Woolf; Vox Luna; Alex Woolf; Nicky Spence; Philip Higham; Iain Burnside |
7:34 | |||
1.4
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Offertory
Alex Woolf; Vox Luna; Alex Woolf; Philip Higham; Anthony Gray |
4:44 | |||
1.5
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Sanctus
Alex Woolf; Vox Luna; Alex Woolf; Anthony Gray |
4:20 | |||
1.6
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A Crowd of Cares
Alex Woolf; Vox Luna; Alex Woolf; Nicky Spence; Philip Higham; Iain Burnside; Anthony Gray |
3:24 | |||
1.7
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Agnus Dei
Alex Woolf; Vox Luna; Alex Woolf; Philip Higham |
5:45 | |||
1.8
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The Year’s Midnight
Alex Woolf; Vox Luna; Alex Woolf; Nicky Spence; Philip Higham; Iain Burnside; Anthony Gray |
6:33 | |||
1.9
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Pie Jesu
Alex Woolf; Vox Luna; Alex Woolf |
5:45 | |||
1.10
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In Paradisum
Alex Woolf; Vox Luna; Alex Woolf; Philip Higham; Anthony Gray |
5:37 |
A major statement by a composer still in his mid-twenties, Alex Woolf’s "Requiem", composed in 2018, combines powerful expressive immediacy with an impressive ability to synthesise the diverse traditions that have grown up around the requiem genre in the past two hundred years, as it has moved from the church into the concert hall.
As in Britten’s "War Requiem", the traditional Latin texts are brought into dialogue with modern-day poetry – here, three poems by the Welsh writer Gillian Clarke (who was National Poet of Wales from 2008 to 2016). Initially these exist in the separate sound-world of a solo tenor and piano, with a solo cello creating the bridge to the liturgical sphere of choir and organ. Yet ultimately, Clarke’s very human concerns focus and inflect Woolf’s approach to the religious texts, confirming the work’s trajectory from despair into consolation.
Nicky Spence, fresh from his triumph at the 2020 BBC Music Magazine Awards, is the solo tenor, joined by Delphian artists Iain Burnside and Philip Higham; and Woolf conducts his own choir Vox Luna in this strikingly personal work.
96 kHz / 24-bit PCM – Delphian Records Studio Masters
Track title | Peak (dB FS) | RMS (dB FS) | LUFS (integrated) | DR | |
Album average Range of values | -1.62 -4.19 to -0.40 | -23.60 -27.18 to -18.78 | -19.36 -23.10 to -15.50 | 13 10 to 14 | |
1 | Introit | -2.17 | -24.99 | -21.6 | 14 |
2 | Kyrie | -0.40 | -19.94 | -16.0 | 11 |
3 | The Fall | -0.40 | -25.41 | -19.9 | 14 |
4 | Offertory | -4.19 | -25.19 | -23.0 | 12 |
5 | Sanctus | -0.40 | -18.78 | -15.5 | 10 |
6 | A Crowd of Cares | -0.40 | -21.60 | -17.8 | 12 |
7 | Agnus Dei | -3.76 | -27.18 | -23.1 | 14 |
8 | The Year’s Midnight | -0.49 | -25.38 | -19.9 | 14 |
9 | Pie Jesu | -0.72 | -23.24 | -16.7 | 13 |
10 | In Paradisum | -3.23 | -24.34 | -20.1 | 12 |