The young British composer Rebecca Dale has emerged from a career in film music into major stardom. She is among the few composers signed to major labels under their own names, and the first such woman on Decca's roster. In the main work, Requiem for My Mother (or, as she has it in the interior material, Materna Requiem), Dale recalls her own mother, who died of breast cancer in 2010, but also mothers in general, and the notes provide a reasonably detectable narrative for each movement. The Kyrie, for instance, is said to ...
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The young British composer Rebecca Dale has emerged from a career in film music into major stardom. She is among the few composers signed to major labels under their own names, and the first such woman on Decca's roster. In the main work, Requiem for My Mother (or, as she has it in the interior material, Materna Requiem), Dale recalls her own mother, who died of breast cancer in 2010, but also mothers in general, and the notes provide a reasonably detectable narrative for each movement. The Kyrie, for instance, is said to represent the bargaining stage families experience after a cancer diagnosis. The strength of her music is that it at times leaves questions unanswered. Dale may recall John Rutter in her orientation toward poetry; she combines it with the Latin requiem mass text in the Requiem for My Mother and a shorter work, When Music Sounds, consists entirely of choral settings of poetry, some of it Dale's own. But her style is closer to that of Karl Jenkins than Rutter: it is broad and grand. The...
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