REQUIEM MASS by JUDGE SMITH
This CD is Judge’s setting of the Latin Mass for the Dead. Written in 1975 but unrecorded until more than 40 years later, when it was released on CD in 2016.
It features fifty voices from The Crouch End Festival Chorus, conducted by David Temple, a four-piece rock band, four trumpets, four trombones, orchestral percussion, and the voice of baritone, Nigel Richards.
Judge’s Requiem Mass is a major piece of symphonic, choral, rock music, and is one of his most significant achievements.
A Requiem Mass is traditionally dedicated to one deceased individual. However, as a young man at the time it was written, the composer had not yet lost anyone significant to him, so this Mass had no original dedicatee. Forty years later, when the recording was finally completed, Fiona Lindsay suggested that all performers on the recording should be invited to submit images of departed loved ones, and the Requiem would be dedicated to the people pictured. Accordingly, all photographs on the front cover are of departed loved ones of the singers, musicians, and other participants in this recording, and it is to their memory that this Requiem Mass is dedicated.
We particularly call to mind baby William O’Callaghan.
Further information at www.judge-smith.com. Contact the composer for access to Full and Vocal scores.
Tracklist
| 1. | Introit | 4:51 |
| 2. | Kyrie | 1:46 |
| 3. | Tract | 3:01 |
| 4. | Dies Irae | 7:39 |
| 5. | Offertory | 1:35 |
| 6. | Sanctus | 3:52 |
| 7. | Agnus Dei | 3:25 |
| 8. | Communion | 1:27 |
| 9. | Amen | 2:56 |
Credits
REQUIEM MASS
Composed by ...........................JUDGE SMITH
CROUCH END FESTIVAL CHORUS
Directed & Conducted by........ DAVID TEMPLE
Baritone Soloist.........................NIGEL RICHARDS
Bass Guitar.................................DAFYDD LEWIS
Drums.........................................CHRIS MAITLAND
Guitar...........................................JAMES PUSEY
Guitar (& Guitar Solos)............JOHN ELLIS
Trumpet......................................JON BEHNCKE
Trumpet..................................... HANS ØYVIND.
Trombone...................................HÅVARD SANNES
Trombone...................................CHRIS DUDLEY
Brass Conducted by................ RICARDO ODRIOZOLA
Orchestral Percussion.............MATT WHITTINGTON
Choral and Brass Orchestrations by
......................................................MICHAEL BRAND
..................................................& RICARDO ODRIOZOLA
Rock Band recorded at Perry Vale Studios, London, UK
Engineer.................................... Pat Collier
Choir recorded at British Grove Studios, London, UK
Engineer................................... Jason Elliot
Assistant................................... Andy Cook
Brass recorded on location in Bergen, Norway
Engineer....................................Davide Bertolini
Solo Voice recorded at Gravity Shack Studios, London, UK
Engineer....................................Tucker Nelson
Mixed at Perry Vale Studios, London, UK
Mix Producer/Engineer...........Pat Collier
Cover Concept.........................Fiona Lindsay
Photography.............................Seán Kelly
Graphic Design...................... Glide Design
License
All rights reserved.
Judge Smith co-founded the band Van der Graaf Generator in 1967 with Peter Hammill, & has since been involved in many music projects as writer, composer or performer. He has written stage musicals, classical & rock libretti, songs for television & a book on Life after Death; directed a prize-winning short film, & released fourteen CDs & two DVDs. He was born in 1948 & lives near Glastonbury, UK.