Special offer. Jean-Paul Dessy: Requiems
Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Tallinn Chamber Orchestra, Risto Joost
The Estonian Philharmonic Choir and Tallinn Chamber Orchestra conducted by Risto Joost give a moving account of this largely contemplative, gentle work, which often engenders a hypnotic quality.
Special offer. Jean-Paul Dessy: Requiems
Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Tallinn Chamber Orchestra, Risto Joost
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The Estonian Philharmonic Choir and Tallinn Chamber Orchestra conducted by Risto Joost give a moving account of this largely contemplative, gentle work, which often engenders a hypnotic quality.
About
Requiems is a funerary ritual that, in the course of six traditions and sacred languages, invites us to enter into eternity.
The Requiems are an invitation, an introduction to rest, to the intangible peace that inhabits the depths of life. A Requiem ought to help us go beyond thought and enter into the rest of the non-mental.
Is there a sound, a frequency, a rhythm, a voice that might help us live this? Such could be the function of a Requiem: those who listen to it, by the grace of sound, would enter into this non-space-time, this non-mental and would thus be in communion with the one or with those who have just given their last breath.
This album is released simultaneously with Requiem by Jean-Yves Leloup published by Editions du Rene (October 2018).
Contents and tracklist
- Jean-Paul Dessy
- Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Tallinn Chamber Orchestra
- Risto Joost
- Jean-Paul Dessy
- Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Tallinn Chamber Orchestra
- Risto Joost
Awards and reviews
January/February 2019
The Estonian Philharmonic Choir and Tallinn Chamber Orchestra conducted by Risto Joost give a moving account of this largely contemplative, gentle work, which often engenders a hypnotic quality.
January 2019
The music is hard to describe; it tries hard to correspond to the sound of each language, perhaps the most unexpected thing being the initial abrasiveness of the Kaddish which is followed by some string-writing that reminds me of no one so much as Philip Glass…These are highly idiomatic works, exploring spiritual themes in music that is at once challenging and beautiful, virtuoso and ecstatic.
