A table of compositions which, based on research, I think may contain the dies irae melody. However, I have been unable to confirm either by hearing a recording or reading the score.
Date Added To Table | Composer | Piece Title | Date Composed | Quote Quality | Comment | Link to score | Link to audio |
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Zimmermann, Bernd Alois | 1900 Jahre Koln | 1950 | Unverified | Several sources indicate, including Audra Versekenaite's article, and Thorsten Gubatz youtube channel. I'm not sure how these people managed to find a recording, I'm striking out. The Deutsches Rundfunkarchive has told me: "I regret to inform you that – according to our information – the radio play has not survived in the archives of the ARD – like so many sound recordings of the early fifties." | |||
Miyoshi, Akira | Chaines, preludes for piano | Unverified | |||||
Mahler, Gustav | Das Klagende Lied | Unverified | ? | ||||
Jochum, Otto | Der jungster Tag (The Last Judgment), op. 28 | 1932 | Unverified | ||||
Despic, Dejan | Dies Irae, op. 106 | 1992 | Unverified | Sent an email to Japanes ensemble Nostos (apparently an ensemble Nostos premiered it in Amsterdam in 1997), it wasn't them. Email in to Dejan Despic's website, and a few other Nostos hopefuls. | |||
Musgrave, Thea | From Darkness Into the Light | Unverified | https://newmusicusa.org/nmbx/thea-musgrave-where-the-practicality-comes-in/ | ||||
Valcarcel, Edgar | Hachaña Ma' Karabotasaq (Responso a un kara-botas) para soprano y orquesta (1973) | 1973 | Unverified | Clara Petrozzi wrote to me: "According to Edgar Valcarcel's own catalogue the work M'akarabotasaq Hachaña for soprano and orchestra was written in 1973 and first performed in the same year in Lima by soprano Margarita Ludeña and the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional of Peru, its duration is of 22 minutes. Originally it was for soprano, two narrators and orchestra according to the article that appeared in 1971 when it was still in process of composition in the series of Composers of the Americas, vol 17, 113-120 by Smith, Carelton Sprague and M. Romro; and it uses a poem by Alberto Valcárcel, his cousin. The name of the work means Requiem for a Karabotas. The Karabotas is a male figure of the region of Puno, like a cowboy, he uses boots and rides horses. Since it is a Requiem it feels natural that he quotes the Dies irae, he used to quote and mix fragments and composers from many traditions with his own material, that was one of his main ways of working." | |||
Nobile, Arthur | Improvisation on Dies irae | 1998 | Unverified | On an album released by Nobile called Fresco: Improvisations and Arrangements Vol 1. Requested ILL from Seton Hill Univ from KT | |||
Davies, Peter Maxwell | Into the Labyrinth | 1983 | Unverified | Jones/McGregor's book "The Music of Peter Maxwell Davies" says it's contained. I don't care for PMD's music so I'm not motivated to find out. | |||
Musgrave, Thea | Journey Into Light | Unverified | https://newmusicusa.org/nmbx/thea-musgrave-where-the-practicality-comes-in/ | ||||
Top, Damien | La Couronne et la Lyre | Unverified | During an inquiry about Guillon-Verne, M. Top informed me of his own song cycle that uses the dies irae melody at one point. Based on texts by Yourcenar. | ||||
Gilbert, Anthony | Lay The Lances | 2018 | Unverified | Gilbert is checking on scanning for me. Says dies irae is only quoted 'in fragment' | |||
Pierres, Thor | Litany for the Day of Human Rights | 1963 | Unverified | Mentioned (disparagingly) in Boyd's article. Can't find much about Pierres. There was a Thor Pierres who acted in a handful of British television productions in the mid-60s (the Fable is pretty good). And a Thor Pierres is mentioned in Inglis Gundry's autobiography The Last Boy of the Family, as an opera producer in the mid 1960s. Mentioned in English theater teachers' (but operating in Australia) Roy Maxwell and Constance Vayne's autobiography as being a voice teacher in London in the mid 1960s. This is a setting to music of Salvador de Madariaga's 1962 'A Litany for the Day of Human Rights', set to music for the occasion of the 1963 Day of Human Rights, first performed Dec 10 1963 at St Bride's in London, at the same event that Du Pre played cello. According to this (https://www.amnesty.org/en/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/nws210071963en.pdf) Thor Pierre is "a composer whose life is an embodiment of the united world. His father is a Danish diplomat and his mother a girl from Liberia." And according to this (https://www.amnesty.org/en/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/nws210141964en.pdf) it's "primarily designed for two voices, preferably baritone and contralto, the Litany can be sung as a solo or even chorally" For those who grasp their prison bars helplessly, that we may walk free - a thought. For those who rot in the dark so that we may walk " in the sun - a thought. For those whose ribs have been broken so that we may breathe our fill - a thought. For those whose back has been broken so that we may walk erect - a thought. For those whose faces have been slapped so that we may walk in fear of no hand - a thought. For those whose pride lies in rags on the slabs of their jails so that we may proudly walk - a thought. For those whose wives live in anguish so that our wives may live happy - a thought. For those whose country is in chains so that our country may be free - a thought. And for their jailers and their torturers - a thought The saddest of all, they are the most maimed, and the Day of reckoning is bound to come | |||
White, Michael | Metamorphosis | 1968 | Unverified | Kafka opera https://academic.oup.com/mq/article-abstract/LV/1/91/1351256?redirectedFrom=PDF Michael White died age 90 in Jan 2022. The Wintergreen Music Festival is in the process of archiving/cataloguing his scores, need to check in again with them in late 2022 to check on score availability. | |||
Needleman, Katherine | Mimas, Sonata for Bassoon and Piano | 2022 | Unverified | Part III: Chorale, Hornpipe, and Dies Irae. Recording should show up on andiemusklive.com by Oct 2022 (they are only up to date through April 2022, this piece premiered May 14 2022) | |||
Part, Arvo | Miserere | Unverified | the melodic formula of the Gregorion monody is thoroughly hidden, so says Versekenaite. I don't hear it. | ||||
Davies, Peter Maxwell | Mr Emmet Takes a Walk | Unverified | Jones/McGregor's book "The Music of Peter Maxwell Davies" says it's contained. I don't care for PMD's music so I'm not motivated to find out. | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ymhm7vxB3I | |||
Ferrata, Giuseppe | Sequentia Dies Irae | 1908 | Unverified | This choral work won the 1908 composition competition choral division sponsored by the Art Society of Pittsburgh (judged by Arthur Foote, Ferrata's other works also won in two other categories). It was played in concert on June 5 1908 at Pittsburgh's Carnegie Hall, it was last on the bill performed by a chorus assembled from members of the TUesday Musical Club Chorale and the Pittsburgh Male Chorus, directed by James Stephen Martin. It's not in Tulane University's Ferrata archives (https://archives.tulane.edu/repositories/3/resources/1001); it's possible that Katrina wiped it out. Edward Eames doesn't know; if he doesn't I'm not sure anybody does. | |||
Tikker, Timothy | Sequentia: Dies Irae (Introduction and Passacaglia for Organ) | 2003 | Unverified | http://ttikker.com/compositions/compositions-organ-music/ | |||
Davies, Peter Maxwell | Sinfonietta Accademica | 1983 | Unverified | https://www.halleonard.com/product/14008415/peter-maxwell-davies-sinfonietta-accademica says it's contained. I don't care for PMD's music so I'm not motivated to find out. | |||
Czarnecki, Slawomir | Sonate Tragique | Northwestern has a copy of score, but needs permission. Tonos is willing to give permission to Northwestern directly. Request is in to Northwestern Library. | |||||
Deane, Raymond | Stretti | 2001 | Unverified | From the composer's notes: "I began work on this 25’ composition – a kind of Concertino for recorder(s) and ensemble – in Céret (French Catalonia) in May 2001 and finished it in Dublin the following November. It is written for 8 musicians, is in 8 sections, and is built on 8 transpositions of an 8-note scale. Originally it was to be a kind of “divertimento” after the rigours of the works that preceded it (“Inter Pares” and “Passage-Work”), but the events of 11 September and the ensuing onslaught on Afghanistan shaped the final section, which is now a kind of elegy interspersed with violent episodes, and quoting the mediaeval “Dies irae” chant minus its famous opening phrase. Only the first, fifth and final sections use the entire ensemble, and the solo recorder is absent only from the seventh; even there it enters in the final bar, linking it without a break to the eighth. I have used the sopranino, soprano, alto, tenor, bass and great bass recorders; section II, written for the latter rarity, also provides a version for bass. The work demands some virtuosity from all performers, not just the soloist!" | |||
Ching, Jeffrey | Symphony #3 "Rituals" | 1998 | Unverified | Complicated orchestral work with 3 different ensembles, representing Malay, Chinese, and Spanish influences. The Spanish ensemble opens with the Dies Irae plainchant in off-stage horns. Peters wants 100 euro for perusal score, I'm not willing. | |||
Glazunov, Alexander | Symphony #5 | Unverified | |||||
Part, Arvo | Symphony No. 3 | 1971 | Unverified | ||||
Rhorer, Jeremie | The Children's Cemetery | 2008 | Unverified | Inspired by the composer/conductor's visit to Island of San Michele (also the resting place for Stravinsky, Diaghilev, Nono). Originally written for piano, then orchestrated 3 years later. http://www.concertonet.com/scripts/review.php?ID_review=3149 and http://www.concertonet.com/scripts/review.php?ID_review=5061 | https://www.radiofrance.fr/francemusique/podcasts/les-grands-entretiens/jeremie-rhorer-verite-force-et-beaute-c-est-ce-que-je-recherche-dans-ma-vie-de-musicien-5-5-4607236 | ||
Davies, Peter Maxwell | the No. 11 Bus | 1987 | Unverified | I don't care for PMD's music so I'm not motivated to find out. | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef-bonJO5so | ||
Mitchell, Stuart Murray | Totentanz | Unverified | 2nd movement https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/342879831.pdf Email sent on Facebook | ||||
Fickenscher, Arthur | Variations on theme Dies Irae for small orchestra | 1925 or earlier | Unverified | Mentioned in a UVA University Bibliography from 1925. Dedicated to Georges Barrere, the NYTimes mentions it was premiered April 1933 at the third and final concert celebrating Barrere's 30 years in America (and panned by the times critic).But this work isn't found in UVA's Fickenscher papers (or at least, not cataloged yet). I'm hoping, if this is not the same piece as Day Of Judgment, that it's what the UVA library lists as 1937's "Variation Fantasy/Variations on a Medieval Theme". I managed to read the score for the Variation Fantasy, dies irae is not contained there. I suspect this work is lost. | |||
Miereanu, Costin | Voyage d'hiver 1 | 1982 | Unverified | for soprano, flute, clarinet, horn, percussion, piano, violin, cello, AKS synthesizer, and tape. Premiered March 12 1982 by Nell Froger and Ensemble de l'Itineraire in Sitges Spain at the Joan Miro Foundation. Looks like DSE (Salabert) held the score file:///C:/Users/vincent.pallaver/Desktop/Catalogue%20Location%202016.pdf I am asking them | |||
Davies, Peter Maxwell | Worldes Blis | 1969 | Unverified | Jones/McGregor's book "The Music of Peter Maxwell Davies" says it's contained. I don't care for PMD's music so I'm not motivated to find out. | |||
Malanska | Unverified | Symphony No 4, or Liberation? |