Requiem & Gallipoli

Requiem & Gallipoli
Studio album by Astrid Williamson
Released 25 December 2015
Label One Little Indian
Astrid Williamson chronology
We Go To Dream
(2015)		 Requiem & Gallipoli
(2015)

Requiem & Gallipoli is the seventh album by Astrid Williamson and contains her first full classic composition.[1]

Williamson first performed Requiem & Gallipoli at Requiem for the Fallen, a D-Day Remembrance event at All Saints' Church, Hessle, Yorkshire on 6 June 2015.[2] The event raised funds for a local Hull veterans' charity and Operation Warrior Wellness, a process to address post-traumatic stress disorder in veterans using transcendental mediation in collaboration with the David Lynch Foundation.[3]

Williamson explained the writing process: "I would translate each movement from Latin, then start writing the music at the piano, later orchestrating and singing each individual voice; as I began to transcribe the piano arrangement for the orchestra I found myself thinking, 'this section must to be on flute, not oboe, not bassoon', it was incredibly intuitive work – the music seemed to unfurl before me. I actually dreamt the 'In Paradisum' and had to get up and write it down immediately. I also found it liberating that in essence the piece was not personal to events in my life. It was refreshing to not be pouring out my experiences, rather I felt I was drawing upon a more collective understanding of loss and release."[4]

Track listing

  1. Requiem
  2. Kyrie
  3. Domine Jesu
  4. Hostias
  5. Sanctus
  6. Agnus Dei
  7. Libera Me
  8. In Paradisium [5]
  9. Gallipoli (solo piano version)
  10. Gallipoli (orchestral version)

References

  1. ↑ "Requiem & Gallipoli - Astrid Williamson". indian.co.uk. Retrieved 2016-06-14.
  2. ↑ "Diocese of York". dioceseofyork.org.uk. Retrieved 2016-06-15.
  3. ↑ "Requiem & Gallipoli - Astrid Williamson". indian.co.uk. Retrieved 2016-06-15.
  4. ↑ "astrid williamson - requiem & gallipoli - resident". www.resident-music.com. Retrieved 2016-06-15.
  5. ↑ Astrid Williamson (2015-05-19), In Paradisum - from Requiem + Gallipoli., retrieved 2016-06-15
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