Requiem (Lloyd Webber)

The Requiem by Andrew Lloyd Webber was written as a requiem mass in memory of the father of the composer William Lloyd Webber, who died in 1982, in 1984.

In 1986, the work won the Grammy Award for Best Classical Contemporary Composition.

The work is for chorus, three soloists and chamber orchestra with organ, and synthesizer set.

Instrumentation

  • Three soloists
  • Mixed Choir ( SATB)
  • Woodwind player whistle
  • Oboe
  • Clarinets
  • Saxophones
  • Bassoons
  • Contrabassoon
  • Horns
  • Trumpet
  • Trombones
  • Harp
  • Violas
  • Cellos
  • Double bass
  • Violins ( optional)

Construction

Andrew Lloyd Webber waived the Gradual and the Tract of the Mass for the Dead. In the Sanctus, it uses the ancient liturgical division into two parts ( Sanctus / Hosanna - Benedictus ). In addition, the work includes the usual until 1970, no longer used in the liturgy of the requiem motet Pie Jesu and a text from the funeral service Libera me.

  • Introit - Kyrie
  • Sequence Dies irae
  • Recordare
  • Ingemisco

Note issue

Andrew Lloyd Webber: Requiem (Vocal Score ), Really Useful Group, ISBN 9780711941021

  • Requiem
  • Choral works from the 20th century
  • Andrew Lloyd Webber
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