FULL Requiem (Duruflé) & The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (Hagen) Ventura CA 2023
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Requiem, The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci
- Composer: Duruflé Maurice, Hagen Jocelyn
- Libretto: various
- Venue & Opera Company: Helen Yunker Auditorium, Performing Arts Center, Ventura College, California
- Recorded: April 21 & 22, 2023
- Type: Concert Live
- Singers:
- Conductor:
- Orchestra:
- Chorus: Gold Coast Concert Chorus, College Chorus and Singers
- Chorus Master: Elizabeth Helms, Brent Wilson
- Stage Director:
- Costume Designer:
Information about the Recording
- Published by: Ventura College Performing Arts Department
- Date Published: 2023
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: nosubs
- Video Recording from: YouTube FULL VIDEO
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
Maurice Duruflé’s sublime Requiem is one of the most beautiful choral pieces ever written, the Requiem pairs flowing Gregorian chant with the lush, sumptuous harmonic language of 20th-century France. Duruflé’s intensely personal take on the requiem mass remains his largest and most performed work.
The piece will be paired with Jocelyn Hagen’s Renaissance-inspired contemporary favorite, The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci. Composed to honor da Vinci’s remarkable legacy on the 500th anniversary of his death in 2019, the work is set to text from his notebooks, which draw on themes of art, science, nature and technology.
Jocelyn Hagen is an American composer. She composes primarily for voice: solo, chamber and choral, but also has composed for chamber, wind, and orchestral ensembles. She has explored large-scale multimedia works, electro-acoustic music, dance, and opera