Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Jakub Hrusa, Jiri Belohlavek – Dvorak: Requiem, Biblical Songs, Te Deum (2020) [FLAC 24bit/96kHz]

Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Jakub Hrusa, Jiri Belohlavek – Dvořák: Requiem, Biblical Songs, Te Deum (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:21:52 minutes | 2,43 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Decca Music Group Ltd.

This release concludes the series of Jiří Bělohlávek’s last recordings of Czech masterworks for Decca Classics before he sadly passed away in 2017

“The Czech Philharmonic give their collective all; with the best sound Decca has yet achieved at the Rudolfinum, this can be placed next to Charles Mackerras as the finest modern Asrael.” BBC Music Magazine, Orchestral Choice ★★★★★

After recording Antonín Dvořák’s complete Symphonies with the Czech Philharmonic, of which he was the musical director from 2012 to 2017, the great conductor Jiří Bělohlávek set out to record the religious works of his compatriot, but death interrupted his attempt. Overcome by cancer in 2017 at the age of seventy-one, he had time to record the Stabat Mater just weeks before his death, as well as the ten Biblical songs, Op. 99 that feature on this new album.
The project is taken up today by Jakub Hrůša who directed the Requiem and the Te Deum during the Prague Dvořák Festival in October 2017. Completed only a few weeks after the death of Jiří Bělohlávek, this recording takes the form of a posthumous tribute to the departed conductor.

Composed in 1890, the Requiem premiered the following year in Birmingham under the direction of Dvořák. This splendid Requiem Mass, in its sobriety, evokes both the melancholy of departure and the hope of a future life free of all despair. Generally considered as the writer’s most profound work, the Requiem speaks to Dvořák’s existential soul-searching as he approached his fifties. The work is shot through with a deep and sincere faith without any folk references, and magnified by a choral writing which is full of grandeur and delicate instrumentation. Dvořák, though a simple man, left in these pages a true meditation on human destiny. ©️ François Hudry

Tracklist:
1. Requiem, Op. 89, B. 165 / Part 1 : 1. Requiem Aeternam (10:58)
2. Requiem, Op. 89, B. 165 / Part 1 : 2. Graduale (4:47)
3. Requiem, Op. 89, B. 165 / Part 1 : 3. Dies Irae (2:28)
4. Requiem, Op. 89, B. 165 / Part 1 : 4. Tuba Mirum (8:53)
5. Requiem, Op. 89, B. 165 / Part 1 : 5. Quid Sum Miser (6:30)
6. Requiem, Op. 89, B. 165 / Part 1 : 6. Recordare, Jesu Pie (7:00)
7. Requiem, Op. 89, B. 165 / Part 1 : 7. Confutatis Maledictis (4:35)
8. Requiem, Op. 89, B. 165 / Part 1 : 8. Lacrymosa (6:52)
9. Requiem, Op. 89, B. 165 / Part 2 : 9. Offertorium: Domine Jesu Christe (11:27)
10. Requiem, Op. 89, B. 165 / Part 2 : 10. Hostias (10:35)
11. Requiem, Op. 89, B. 165 / Part 2 : 11. Sanctus (5:50)
12. Requiem, Op. 89, B. 165 / Part 2 : 12. Pie Jesu (4:57)
13. Requiem, Op. 89, B. 165 / Part 2 : 13. Agnus Dei (11:56)
14. Biblical Songs, Op. 99 : 1. Oblak a mrákota jest vůkol Něho (2:05)
15. Biblical Songs, Op. 99 : 2. Skrýše má a paveza má Ty jsí (2:00)
16. Biblical Songs, Op. 99 : 3. Slyš, ó Bože, slyš modlitbu mou (3:01)
17. Biblical Songs, Op. 99 : 4. Hospodin jest můj pastýř (2:34)
18. Biblical Songs, Op. 99 : 5. Bože! Bože! Píseň novou (2:42)
19. Biblical Songs, Op. 99 : 6. Slyš, ó Bože, volání mé (3:06)
20. Biblical Songs, Op. 99 : 7. Při řekách babylonských (3:11)
21. Biblical Songs, Op. 99 : 8. Popatřiž na mne a smiluj se nade mnou (2:53)
22. Biblical Songs, Op. 99 : 9. Pozdvihuji očí svých k horám (2:02)
23. Biblical Songs, Op. 99 : 10. Zpívejte Hospodinu píseň novou (1:56)
24. Te Deum, Op. 103, B. 176 : 1. Te Deum laudamus (6:20)
25. Te Deum, Op. 103, B. 176 : 2. Tu Rex gloriae, Christe (4:29)
26. Te Deum, Op. 103, B. 176 : 3. Aeterna fac cum Sanctis (2:59)
27. Te Deum, Op. 103, B. 176 : 4. Dignare Domine (5:58)