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Track(s) taken from SIGCD475

I know that my redeemer liveth

composer
Cecilia McDowall (b1951)
2009
author of text
Bible
Job 19: 25-6; 1 Corinthians 15: 20

Queen's College Choir Oxford, Owen Rees (conductor)
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Recording details: January 2016
Church of St Michael and All Angels, Oxford, United Kingdom
Produced by Adrian Peacock
Engineered by David Hinitt
Release date: March 2017
Total duration: 5 minutes 29 seconds
 

Cecilia McDowall’s I know that my redeemer liveth sets a composite Biblical text familiar from its use in Handel’s Messiah: her work was commissioned in 2009, the 250th anniversary of Handel’s death, to be performed alongside Brahms’ A German Requiem. The text is a revelatory vision of our bodily resurrection on the Day of Judgement. From a tranquil opening, the music builds to a radiant climax (highlighted by a sudden shift to a new harmonic realm) at the words ‘and in my flesh shall I see God’. The ensuing triple-time section incorporates a memorable lullaby-like portrayal of ‘them that sleep’.

from notes by Owen Rees © 2016

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