FAURÉ: REQUIEM • FOLK SONGS OF BARTÓK, FAURÉ, DEBUSSY & STRAVINSKIY
(BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY CHORUS & CHAMBER CHOIR PERFORMANCE – MARCH 9, 2014)

Conducted by Prof. JAMES D. OLESEN, B.A., D.M.A., musical director
Pianist: Prof. LESLIE AMPER, B.M., M.M.*

THE BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY CHAMBER CHOIR:

BÉLA VIKTOR JÁNOS BARTÓK (1881 – 1945)
1. Song of Loneliness
2. Choosing a Girl
3. The Songbird’s Promise

GABRIEL URBAIN FAURÉ (1845 – 1924)
Poet: Anonymous
4. Le ruisseau – TAMAR FORMAN-GEJROT, soprano

ACHILLE-CLAUDE DEBUSSY (1862 – 1918)
Poet: Louis Philippe, comte de Ségur (1753 – 1830)
5. Salut printemps – ADINA SHAPIRO, soprano

IGOR’ FYODOROVICH STRAVINSKIY (1882 – 1971): Four Russian Peasant Songs
6. On Saint’s Days in Chigisakh – VICTORIA DIECK, soprano
7. Oysyen
8. The Pike
9. Master Portly – VICTORIA DIECK, soprano

THE BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY CHORUS:

FAURÉ: Requiem in D-minor, Op. 48 (1893 Version)
10. I. Introït & Kyrie eleison
11. II. Offertoire & Hostias – CHARLES MADISON, baritone
12. III. Sanctus
13. IV. Pie Iesu – TABITHA ROHRER, soprano
14. V. Agnus Dei
15. VI. Libera me – JASON TENG, baritone
16. VII. In paradisum

* Tracks 4, 5, and 10 – 16.

Performed live at the Recital Hall of the Slosberg Music Center at Brandeis University, Sunday, March 9, 2014. Recorded by Sam Chussid (@sam-chussid). Remastered by Craig Robertson (@everythingwillpass). Additional enhancement and editing of Fauré Requiem by Ben Poser (@benjamin-poser).

Fauré: Requiem in D-minor, Op. 48 (1893 Version) – VII. In paradisum

Music from American Experience documentary, Reagan.

Reagan

A simple setting of a beautiful poem sung wondrously by the great counter-tenor William Purefoy

Vocal Library demos

Pulchra Es

My own favourites. Mostly things that just happen as if on their own. Waiting for me to write them....
I have written all of the above for Documentaries. But I don't write to picture..I write for picture. A difference I enjoy.

Bells and Soprano Sax (me)

3 Go To Bed

Pulchra Es performed by Counter Tenor Billy Purefoy

This is a cue for a documentary series on the history of the English.
The vocal was sung by the counter-tenor William Purefoy.
And in the background is the sound of a 747 taking off from Heathrow

Fauré: Requiem in D-minor, Op. 48 (1893 Version) – VII. In paradisum

Benjamin Poser