The Hilliard Ensemble

John Potter: voice; Anna Maria Friman: voice; Ariel Abramovich, Jacob Heringman: alto, tenor and bass vihuelas: Lee Santana: alto and tenor vihuelas; Hille Perl: viola da gamba

Alexei Lubimov: tangent piano

Christian Reiner: voice

Natalia Zagorinskaya: soprano; Gerrie de Vries: mezzo-soprano; Yves Saelens: tenor; Harry van der Kamp: bass

Jean-Guiten Queyras: violoncello; Elliott Simpson: guitar; Tamara Stefanovich: piano; Csaba Király: pianino, spoken word

Asko/Schönberg Ensemble, Netherlands Radio Choir, Reinbert de Leeuw, conductor

The Hilliard Ensemble
David James - countertenor, Ashley Stafford - countertenor, John Potter - tenor, Rogers Covey-Crump - tenor, Mark Padmore - tenor, Paul Hillier - baritone, David Beavan - bass

Feria V, Responsoria 1-9
Feria VI, Responsoria 1-9
Sabbato Sancto, Responsoria 1-9
Benedictus
Miserere

Pablo Márquez: guitar

RIAS Kammerchor & Münchener Kammerorchester
directed by Alexander Liebreich

Tigran Mansurian has created a Requiem dedicated to the memory of the victims of the Armenian Genocide that occurred in Turkey from 1915 to 1917. Co-commissioned by the Munich Chamber Orchestra and the RIAS Choir Berlin, Mansurian’s Requiem reconciles the sound and sensibility of his country’s traditions with those of Western practices, the combination of ancient Armenian religious and secular music with the Latin Requiem text “giving rise to something unexpected,” the composer says. This is profoundly moving contemporary composition, illuminated by the “glow of Armenian modality,” as Paul Griffiths puts it in his booklet essay. The work is a milestone for Mansurian, widely acknowledged as Armenia’s greatest composer. The Los Angeles Times has described his music as that “in which deep cultural pain is quieted through an eerily calm, heart-wrenching beauty.”