Balakauskas/ Leitaite/ Katkus - Requiem Release:Requiem Naxos and Neal McDonough

and Neal McDonough

and it includes favourites such as the BBC TV Onedin Line theme - the Adagio from Spartacus

is nowadays a country fighting for it's survival

alongside a number of guest features

Balakauskas/ Leitaite/ Katkus - Requiem Release:Requiem Naxos and Neal McDonoughBalakauskas's Requiem is an intimate chamber work in character and scoring, performed by a mezzo soprano, choir and chamber orchestra. The composer himself claims to have created an emphatically traditional work, though it would appear that here he upholds the old division between the spheres of musica sacra, with it's cultivation of true and tried values, and that of the innovation seeking musica profana. The musical language of the Requiem, compared