Requiem Novum: A Response of Hope and Wonder

Mårten Jansson's new album 'Requiem Novum' will be released on 25th March 2022.

This new large work for chorus and orchestra, written by Swedish composer Mårten Jansson and American lyricist Charles Anthony Silvestri, features the familiar movements of the Latin Requiem Mass, with new poetry in response to each movement, but from the perspective of the dead. The entire work moves from the somber, melancholy, even fearful tones of the mass movements to responses of hope and wonder, as those whom we mourn reveal the peace, redemption, and sheer wonder of their new reality beyond the veil of eternity.

Requiem Novum expresses the grief we feel, our hope for life eternal, and provides an opportunity for those we have lost to comfort us.

Track listing:

1. Introitus

2. Or So The Living Pray – Kyrie

3. Cry Not In Anguished Voices – Dies irae

4. On That Day of Weeping – Sanctus

5. I Stand Upon a Landscape of Infinity

6. Pie Jesu

7. Eternal Rest – In Paradisum – Here on The Other Side of Eternity

As part of LIVE From London Easter 2022, we are celebrating the release of the world premiere recording of 'Requiem Novum' from soprano Anna Dennis, The VOCES8 Foundation Choir and the Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Barnaby Smith, the festival team welcomes you to enjoy the filmed performance from the recording sessions at All Hallows’, Gospel Oak, London.

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