“Barnes’s music suggests the glimmering starlight that an observer sees on looking up while traversing the Underground Railroad.”
“Clark’s revision is like a breath of fresh air for Mozart’s Requiem”
John L. Speller, Diapason
“A very nicely balanced recording.”
“The music [Barnes] writes for Tubman’s and Douglass’s words is pretty engaging…There’s an edgy jazziness to Do Right, while there’s a gentle march-like quality to Moral Growth, both settings of words by Douglass.”
“The choir sing accurately and very enthusiastically. They go hell-for-leather at the Dies Irae and Confutatis, which is taken at a daringly fast speed, but they’re incisive in the big fugues and there’s a pleasing sense of weight to their singing.”
Simon Thompson, MusicWeb International
“An encouragement for the next generation to dream”
Colin Clarke, Fanfare
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This double premiere recording with early instruments is of the live concert event “Mozart Requiem Reframed”, performed on May 29, 2022.
Location: Kraushaar Auditorium, Goucher College, Baltimore, Maryland
Total Time: 61:07
Portraits: Douglass and Tubman
Jasmine Barnes, composer and narrator (b. 1991)
1 I. “We”
2 II. “Do Right”
3 III. “Moral Growth”
4 IV. “The Riot”
5 V. “Death or Liberty”
6 VI. “Every Great Dream”
Requiem, K. 626
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
New Performance Edition by Anthony Blake Clark (b. 1992)
7 I. Introitus
8 II. Kyrie
9 III. Sequentia: Dies irae
10 III. Sequentia: Tuba mirum
11 III. Sequentia: Rex tremendae
12 III. Sequentia: Recordare
13 III. Sequentia: Confutatis
14 III. Sequentia: Lacrimosa
15 IV. Offertorium: Domine Jesu
16 IV. Offertorium: Hostias
17 V. Sanctus
18 VI. Benedictus
19 VII. Agnus Dei
20 VIII. Communio: Lux aeterna
Links: Jasmine Barnes, composer | Baltimore Choral Arts Society |
Anthony Blake Clark, conductor & arranger | Press Release