Bryars' moving Cadman Requiem, for Bill Cadman, a colleague who was killed in the Lockerbie bombing (1988), combines medieval texts and instruments with modern sensibilities. It contains:
01. Requiem / Kyrie
02. Bede (Latin paraphrase of Caedmon’s Creation Hymn)
03. Agnus Dei
04. Caedmon Creation Hymn
05. In Paradisum
♫ 01. Requiem / Kyrie
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♫ 02. Bede (Latin paraphrase of Caedmon’s Creation Hymn)
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♫ 03. Agnus Dei
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♫ 04. Caedmon Creation Hymn
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♫ 05. In Paradisum
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Cadman requiem was written in memory of my friend and sound engineer Bill Cadman, who was killed in the Lockerbie air crash in December 1988. It is in five sections and sets only two of the traditional requiem texts - 'Kyrie' and 'Agnus Dei' - with the addition of 'In Paradisum' which, although from the Order of Burial, is set by Fauré and others. The other two sections, which come in between the traditional parts, are Bede's paraphrase of Caedmon's Creation-Hymn (in Latin like the three traditional movements) and the original Caedmon poem (in 7th century Northumbrian). The surname "Cadman" is a corruption of "Caedmon", the first English poet who, though he considered himself to lack any poetic skill, discovered the gift of poetic utterance when "a certain person" appeared to him in a dream. The piece was written in the spring of 1989 for the four voices of the Hilliard Ensemble accompanied, in the original version, by 2 violas and cello, with optional double bass. Another version was made in the autumn of 1997 for the Hilliard Ensemble to perform with the 6 viol consort Fretwork. It is dedicated to Bill Cadman.