Requiem, a two-disc set by Conspirare, the Austin, TX-based vocal ensemble, was originally released in 2006 on the Clarion label and received two Grammy nominations. This release on Harmonia Mundi has trimmed several tracks so that it could be issued on a single disc, and it received the Dutch Edison Award in the Choral Music category. It's easy to hear why it has been so highly honored. The group sings with an exceptionally pure and focused tone, and its blend is generously warm. Founder and conductor Craig Hella-Johnson ...
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Requiem, a two-disc set by Conspirare, the Austin, TX-based vocal ensemble, was originally released in 2006 on the Clarion label and received two Grammy nominations. This release on Harmonia Mundi has trimmed several tracks so that it could be issued on a single disc, and it received the Dutch Edison Award in the Choral Music category. It's easy to hear why it has been so highly honored. The group sings with an exceptionally pure and focused tone, and its blend is generously warm. Founder and conductor Craig Hella-Johnson leads the ensemble of about three-dozen singers in performances of unusually supple and nuanced phrasing. The most familiar work is Herbert Howells' Requiem, which the composer wrote as a memorial to his son in 1936, but which wasn't performed until 1980. Drawing its texts largely from the Psalms, it's an achingly heartfelt work and the group pours itself into it with glowing intensity. All the works on the album are in a similar vein of introspective melancholy. The two movements...
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