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KURSK: an oratorio requiem

for 10 voices and chamber orchestra

Year:  2011   ·  Duration:  1h 35m
Instrumentation:  bass-baritone, soprano and 1/4 flugel horn soloists + 8 male voices and 26 piece chamber orchestra (2 fl/picc Bb B./Cl, C/Bsn, WTba/Hn, Tbn, B Tbn, Tba, Timp, Perc, Hp, Prp Pno, Strings – 3.3.3.3.2)

Year:  2011
Duration:  1h 35m
Instrumentation  bass-baritone, soprano and ...

David Chisholm
Composer

Composer:   David Chisholm

About Work

About

Sweeping in scope, devastating in tone and unwavering in its artistic vision, this collaboration between composer David Chisholm and poet Anzhelina Polonskaya is a moving elegy to the lives lost in the tragic sinking of the Kursk submarine.


Text note

poetry by Anzhelina Polonskaya

Performance history

Performed by Melbourne's Arcko Symphonic Project, featuring Tristram Williams (trumpet), Jessica Aszodi (soprano) and Christopher Richardson (bass-baritone), with Eric Dudley (conductor)

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