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Article: the critics: 1995 Edinburgh Festival; MUSIC; Requiem for the middle classes
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- August 27, 1995
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THE NAME at Edinburgh this year is Dvorak, and it's a name
designed to do what Tchaikovsky did for the Festival a few years
ago: pull in the public but explore some byways of the repertory as
well. For Dvorak is one of those composers whose fame is selective.
An assimilator between East and West with a win- ning gift for
melody, he has always been one of Central Europe's most popular
cultural exports to the English- speaking world. But we celebrate
him essentially as an orchestral composer of symphonies and
concertos, whereas our great-grandfathers knew him as a composer
for the voice - and above all for the large-scale choral works that
British music festivals consumed, and commissioned, ...
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... ... Bernd Alois Zimmermann's rarely heard Requiem for a Young Poet was fascinating in quite ... interspersed with sections from the Requiem Mass, the whole ending in a Dona Nobis ... fierce desperation. Disturbing stuff: a requiem for a turbulent century, perhaps? A ...
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