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Stanley Joseph Seeger (Joseph James)
1930 - 2011
United States of America, TX
| S.J. Seeger | F.J. Brown |
Stanley (Joseph) Seeger jr. (28/05/1930 - 24/06/2011) an American/English composer, born in USA Wisconsin, Milwaukee - England, London
heir to a family fortune from lumber and oil, studied music at Princeton University and 1953 with Luigi Dallapiccola in Florence Italy, 1979 he bougth Sutton Place in Surrey England, 1993 he sold his Picasso collection for $32 million at Sotheby just to continue collecting other paintings.
The music of Joseph James is the fruit of a long-standing collaboration between the composers:
- Francis James Brown
and
- Stanley Joseph Seeger.
Both are composers in their own right, having first met in Florence in the early 1950s while studying with Luigi Dallapiccola. Their recorded works include the film score for Priest of Love, a film biography of D.H.Lawrence directed by Christopher Miles, Sketches from The Scarlet Letter, an opera based on the novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Concerto for 3 Bouzoukis and orchestra and Requiem after J.S.Bach, a moving and imaginative interpretation of Bach's music used for a setting of the Latin requiem mass.
The music of Joseph James is the fruit of a long-standing collaboration between the composers:
- Francis James Brown
and
- Stanley Joseph Seeger.
Both are composers in their own right, having first met in Florence in the early 1950s while studying with Luigi Dallapiccola. Their recorded works include the film score for Priest of Love, a film biography of D.H.Lawrence directed by Christopher Miles, Sketches from The Scarlet Letter, an opera based on the novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Concerto for 3 Bouzoukis and orchestra and Requiem after J.S.Bach, a moving and imaginative interpretation of Bach's music used for a setting of the Latin requiem mass.
| Source: | booklet of cd Requiem after J.S. Bach Black Box Musix 1023 and http://composers-classical-music.com/j/JamesJoseph-StanleyJosephSeeger-FrancisJamesBrown.htm |
Requiem after J.S. Bach
♫ 01. Requiem aeternam
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♫ 02. Kyrie eleison. Christe eleison. Kyrie eleision
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♫ 03. Requiem aeternam
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♫ 04. Domine Jesu Christe
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♫ 05. Hostias et preces tibi, Domine
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♫ 06. Sanctus et Benedictus
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♫ 07. Agnus Dei
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♫ 08. Lux aeterna
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♫ 09. Requiem aeternam
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♫ 10. Amen
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♫ 11. Versa est in luctum cithara mea
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♫ 12. Liber me, Domine
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♫ 13. Dies illa, dies irae
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♫ 14. Requiem aeternam
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♫ 15. Libera me, Domine
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♫ 16. Kyrie elesion. Christe eleison. Kyrie eleison
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| Period: | Modernism |
| Composed in: | 1997 |
| Musical form: | mass |
| Text/libretto: | Latin mass |
| Duration: | ca.56' |
| Label(s): | Black Box Music BBM 1023 |
Requiem after J.S. Bach contains:
* Introitus
01. Requiem aeternam
* Kyrie
02. Kyrie eleison. Christe eleison. Kyrie eleision
* Graduale
03. Requiem aeternam
* Offertorium
04. Domine Jesu Christe
05. Hostias et preces tibi, Domine
* Sanctus
06. Sanctus et Benedictus
* Agnus Dei
07. Agnus Dei
* Communio
08. Lux aeterna
09. Requiem aeternam
10. Amen
* Planctus
11. Versa est in luctum cithara mea
* Absolutio. Responsorium
12. Liber me, Domine
13. Dies illa, dies irae
14. Requiem aeternam
15. Libera me, Domine
16. Kyrie elesion. Christe eleison. Kyrie eleison
* Introitus
01. Requiem aeternam
* Kyrie
02. Kyrie eleison. Christe eleison. Kyrie eleision
* Graduale
03. Requiem aeternam
* Offertorium
04. Domine Jesu Christe
05. Hostias et preces tibi, Domine
* Sanctus
06. Sanctus et Benedictus
* Agnus Dei
07. Agnus Dei
* Communio
08. Lux aeterna
09. Requiem aeternam
10. Amen
* Planctus
11. Versa est in luctum cithara mea
* Absolutio. Responsorium
12. Liber me, Domine
13. Dies illa, dies irae
14. Requiem aeternam
15. Libera me, Domine
16. Kyrie elesion. Christe eleison. Kyrie eleison
| Source: | booklet of cd Black Box Music BBM 1023 |
♫ 01. Requiem aeternam
© Black Box Music BBM 1023
♫ 02. Kyrie eleison. Christe eleison. Kyrie eleision
© Black Box Music BBM 1023
♫ 03. Requiem aeternam
© Black Box Music BBM 1023
♫ 04. Domine Jesu Christe
© Black Box Music BBM 1023
♫ 05. Hostias et preces tibi, Domine
© Black Box Music BBM 1023
♫ 06. Sanctus et Benedictus
© Black Box Music BBM 1023
♫ 07. Agnus Dei
© Black Box Music BBM 1023
♫ 08. Lux aeterna
© Black Box Music BBM 1023
♫ 09. Requiem aeternam
© Black Box Music BBM 1023
♫ 10. Amen
© Black Box Music BBM 1023
♫ 11. Versa est in luctum cithara mea
© Black Box Music BBM 1023
♫ 12. Liber me, Domine
© Black Box Music BBM 1023
♫ 13. Dies illa, dies irae
© Black Box Music BBM 1023
♫ 14. Requiem aeternam
© Black Box Music BBM 1023
♫ 15. Libera me, Domine
© Black Box Music BBM 1023
♫ 16. Kyrie elesion. Christe eleison. Kyrie eleison
© Black Box Music BBM 1023
This requiem has been composed by Stanley Joseph Seeger and Francis James Brown and is a choral setting of the requiem mass to the instrumental keyboard music of Bach. It ranges from fairly direct transcriptions of fugues to freer transformations of Bach's music. The result is a beautiful and fitting tribute to Bach with soloists, choir and orchestra.
This requiem belongs to the rich tradition of works based on the music of Johann Sebastiaan Bach, but it breaks with that tradition both in its form and technique of composition. It is a full setting of a requiem mass (using the text set by Tomás Luis de Victoria in his Officium Defunctorum of 1605), and each of its parts is a vocal movement based on one of Bach's keyboard pieces - in some cases, particularly in the fugues, a fairly direct transcription, in others a more complex transformation using both the harmonic progressions and the figuration of the original in a quite new context.
This requiem belongs to the rich tradition of works based on the music of Johann Sebastiaan Bach, but it breaks with that tradition both in its form and technique of composition. It is a full setting of a requiem mass (using the text set by Tomás Luis de Victoria in his Officium Defunctorum of 1605), and each of its parts is a vocal movement based on one of Bach's keyboard pieces - in some cases, particularly in the fugues, a fairly direct transcription, in others a more complex transformation using both the harmonic progressions and the figuration of the original in a quite new context.
| Source: | David Dalle and Michael Raeburn |
Requiem after J.S. Bach. This disc (BBM 1023) puts a whole new spin on the idea of transcription, in several senses. For one thing, "Joseph James" is an enharmonic juxtapositioning of two unrelated musical ideas - the composers Stanley Joseph Seeger and Francis James Brown. And then, the requiem itself is composed of orchestral and vocal transcriptions - some more free than others, but all honoring the style of the original music - of keyboard works by J.S. Bach. The whole emerges as a very convincing mass which just might be by Bach, maybe with politically incorrect (by modern purist standards) editorial amendments to the harmony and orchestration by some Stokowskian romantic non-academic performer. Much more than a parody, a most appealing oddity, and a fine piece of music.
| Source: | www.recordsinternational.com |