Toccata Classics 2015
Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir and Chamber Ensemble
Gregory Rose (conductor)
EAN: 5060113442840
Release Date: 4 September 2015
The Danse macabre – the idea that Death comes for everyone regardless of status or importance – has fascinated musicians for centuries. In 2011, inspired by a vast sixteenth-century painting by Bernd Notke in the Niguliste, St Michael’s Church in Tallinn, the English composer Gregory Rose (b. 1948) set the mediaeval German texts which sit below each panel, turning Notke’s terrifying vision into a bleak but grimly humorous ritual.
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