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Edinburgh International Festival 1995

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Zimmermann: Requiem for a Young Poet
An epic work in the tradition of Mahler's Symphony of a Thousand. Three choirs, orchestra, jazz combo, soloists and tapes combine in Bernd Alois
Zimmermann's personal elegy for the 50 years between the October
Revolution and the invasion of Czechoslovakia by Warsaw Pact forces.
Vlatka Orsanic (soprano) James Johnson (baritone)
Bernhard Schir and Michael
Rotschopf (speakers) Cologne Radio Chorus South German Radio
Chorus
Edinburgh Festival Chorus Slovakian Philharmonic
Chorus, Bratislava
Bratislava City Chorus SWF SO Baden-Baden, conductor Michael Gielen

Contributors

Unknown:
Bernd Alois
Soprano:
Vlatka Orsanic
Baritone:
James Johnson
Baritone:
Bernhard Schir
Conductor:
Michael Gielen
Source: Radio Times

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