Guan Xia – Earth Requiem [2013 Virgin Classics][FLAC]

The "Earth Requiem" is a gigantic work performed and recorded in Beijing in May 2011 in remembrance of the devastating Sichuan earthquake in 2008. This is the first Chinese Requiem ever composed. This massive work by renowned Chinese composer Guan Xia is scored for 100 instrumentalists, a choir of 150 singers, an organ and 4 vocal soloists. The well-established China National Symphony Orchestra invited the legendary French conductor Michel Plasson, who has long had a close association with EMI Classics, to work on the project. This partnership between West and East gives the recording a universal breadth as well as an overarching theme: the Earth. The emotional strength of the work is empowered by its gargantuan scale.

Tracklist
1. I. Gazing at the stars
2. II. Heavenly Wind and Earth Fire
3. III. Boundless Love
4. IV. Wings of Angels

Yao Hong, soprano
Liu Shan, mezzo-soprano
Jin Yongzhe, tenor
Sun Li, baritone
Shen Fanxiu, organ
He Wangjin, Qiang Flute
China National Symphony Orchestra
China National Symphony Chorus
Michel Plasson

FLAC

http://www.adrive.com/public/bnjsAQ/Guan%20Xia%20-%20Earth%20Requiem.rar

I’ll try it. Thank you

Looks very cool . Thanks.

many thanks !!!

Thank you share!

Beautiful music!
Thanks for the share!

This is an emotional, powerful and beautiful work, best played loud.

I already got this from ModernAcademics but your adrive.com is much faster to download from than rapidgator.com. Note that the last track is 14:23 long, not 4:23 as the label says. Also in error it is said to be the first Chinese requiem ever composed. Not so, as five years earlier Zhenmin XU composed the Nanjing Requiem to mark the anniversary of the massacre by the Japanese.

Richard Morrison of The Times of London had this to say of Earth Requiem:
“the piece is like pentatonic Andrew Lloyd Webber, rising to Hollywood-soundtrack portentousness. Michel Plasson conducts enormous forces, including — for one blissfully non-Western interlude — Chinese folk instrumentalists.”

Thanks.

Eagerly waiting for listen to this album now. Many thanks for sharing tri 🙂

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Thanks 🙂

Hi tri2061990,
Thank you for the opportunity to hear the music of a composer unknown to me. Overall, I have the impression this work is more interesting than really well written. Especially the chorus has a rather old-fashioned expression. But maybe that has more to do with my own listening habits, as with the lack of quality in the composition. I have no difficulty with the Japanese pentatonic scale, but probably with Andrew Lloyd Webber. 😉 Anyway, I thank you again and also for Flac. Have a nice day.

I would like to try it too, but it’s offline.
Please re-upp!

New link updated!