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Requiem: The Pity of War
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Label: Erato
Cat No: 9029566156
Barcode: 0190295661564
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 26th October 2018
Putting together a song recital to mark today’s Armistice centenary is no easy task – few art songs came directly from the horrors of the trenches – but the work of two composers killed in the conflict, one English, one German, finds its way on to a moving new release from tenor Ian Bostridge, with the Royal Opera’s Antonio Pappano at the piano. George Butterworth’s settings of AE Housman’s 
Bostridge and Antonio Pappano are on superb form here, carefully responsive to style and mood, yet striving throughout for unsparing immediacy of expression. Stephan’s taxing vocal lines push Bostridge to his limits in places, though the atmosphere of sensual introversion is finely sustained. 
Bostridge and Pappano revel in the folk-like Butterworth numbers and the heady Romanticism (recalling Strauss, even early Berg) of Stephan's cycle. ... Bostridge's distinctive, idiosyncratic style lends more than a hint of rage to Mahler and Weill's anti-miltaristic irony. 
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