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Rufus Wainwright

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Praised by the New York Times for his “genuine originality,” RUFUS WAINWRIGHT has established himself as one of the great male vocalists, songwriter...
Rufus Wainwright

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an unabashedly honest, musically sprawling record that finds the vocalist reaching a new level of maturity.
Dream Requiem
  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

Rufus Wainwright

Dream Requiem

Warner Classics
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    Expected Release: 17th Jan 2025

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Written during the pandemic, it's a requiem "for the people we have lost in this crisis, for the past from which we are cut off and for the future to which we do not yet know how to connect, a Requiem for human contact, solidarity and the human voice that have all become dangerous and contagious".

It's also a reflection on environmental collapse and the increase in the number of natural disasters. The text of Dream Requiem weaves together words from the Latin Mass for the Dead - as used by his hero Verdi - with Lord Byron's apocalyptic poem "Darkness," written after the volcanic eruption of Mount Tambora in 1815 and which brought about "the year without summer.”

'Dream Requiem' was commissioned by Radio France, The Royal Ballet, the Los Angeles Master Chorale, Palau de la Música Catalana Barcelona, Auditori de Barcelona, the RTÉ Concert Orchestra, the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra and the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra.