Among the variously described 25-40,000 civilian casualties sustained in the Allied bombing of Dresden on February 13, 1945, were 11 of the 18 choirboys belonging to the Dresden Kreuzchor. This tragic event impelled choirmaster Rudolf Mauersberger to compose one of the most eloquent and moving major choral works of the twentieth century, the Dresdner Requiem, between 1945 and 1951. For some reason, complete recordings of this lengthy work have never been made prior to Carus Verlag's recording with the Dresden Kreuzchor in ...
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Among the variously described 25-40,000 civilian casualties sustained in the Allied bombing of Dresden on February 13, 1945, were 11 of the 18 choirboys belonging to the Dresden Kreuzchor. This tragic event impelled choirmaster Rudolf Mauersberger to compose one of the most eloquent and moving major choral works of the twentieth century, the Dresdner Requiem, between 1945 and 1951. For some reason, complete recordings of this lengthy work have never been made prior to Carus Verlag's recording with the Dresden Kreuzchor in 1994; justifiably famous excerpts appeared in the 1950s featuring the voice of an exceptional choirboy, Peter Schreier, though none since. Mauersberger's Requiem is remarkable not only because of the harrowing circumstances under which it was created, but as the idiom of his style represents a seamless combination of Renaissance harmonic technique with the more parallel and secundal harmonic language of the twentieth century. That may sound more technical than "beautiful," but...
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