Finding time and space with a Requiem

Like most of us (save anyone in the healthcare profession), composer Jeremy Beck found a lot of down time during the pandemic. It was this isolation and break from daily routine that allowed him to finish a big work he'd been sketching for several years: a Requiem.

While this setting of the Requiem doesn't memorialize anyone specific, Beck says that his work is a mass "of its time," reflecting on loss and change we've all experienced in the past several years. This new work is out on the Acis label , performed by Coro Volante, the Cincinnati String Ensemble, and conducted by Brett Scott.

We also talked about his other recent release " remember ," a collection of solo, chamber, and vocal works.