Glanert - Requiem for Hieronymus Bosch

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Wilson-Johnson/Mikolaj/Steinen/Siegel/Fischesser/Netherlands Radio Choir/Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra/Stenz
(RCO Live)

Last year was the 500th anniversary of the death of Hieronymus Bosch. The centrepiece of the events honouring one of the Netherlands’ greatest artists was a wonderfully comprehensive exhibition of his surviving paintings in his native city of Den Bosch, but the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra paid tribute, too, commissioning its current “house composer” Detlev Glanert to create a large-scale choral work on the subject of the painter. Markus Stenz conducted the premiere of Requiem for Hieronymus Bosch in St John’s Cathedral in Den Bosch last November, and it was repeated the following evening in the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, where this recording was made.

Related: Hieronymus Bosch review – a heavenly host of delights on the road to hell