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The Cry: A Requiem for the Lost Child is a studio album by the British singer, songwriter, and keyboardist Adrian Snell, released on Serious Music in September 2003. A powerful and moving work, this album combines the Requiem liturgy with authentic children’s words reflecting on conflicts and ethnic cleansing they have witnessed. It features Snell with Winchester Cathedral Choir, Natasha Gorlee and Rebecca Engstrom (solo violin).
By parts Oratorio and pop-influenced, this is one of those works that is almost impossible to classify, but which, nonetheless, demands a listen. Four years in the making, ‘The Cry’ takes as its theme the tragic fate of children the world over, who have met their death as a result of war, terrorism or simply the brutality of everyday life. The selections are often told from the victims’ perspectives, and the subjects range from a child incarcerated in the Auschwitz concentration camp, to a Guatemalan street kid and a 10 year old killed along with his brother, sister and mother by a landmine in Kosovo. The subject is sensitively but honestly approached and the result is an extraordinarily poignant insight into just a fraction of what God must feel towards these his little ones. This may at times make for uncomfortable, even disturbing listening, but in an age of increasing antipathy and indifference towards the suffering, this really should be heard. [Steve Best, Cross Rhythms, July 2004]
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CD tracklist:
01. Out of the Deep – 2:55
02. Will the Waiting Be Long? – 1:46
03. Requiem Aeternam – 3:38
04. Kyrie Eleison (Part One) – 1:37
05. How Did I Believe In You? – 2:32
06. I Dream of Peace – 4:39
07. The Cry / Dies Irae – 4:50
08. Recordare Jesu Pie – 3:27
09. Fear – 5:34
10. The Naming – 3:27
11. Sanctus – 2:29
12. On a Night of Rain In Jerusalem – 3:34
13. New Covenant – 1:50
14. Credo – 3:51
15. Agnus Dei – 4:08
16. Our Father – 3:43
17. On a Sunny Evening – 2:36
18. A Little Child Shall Lead Them – 3:27
19. If I Were President – 2:30
20. The Beatitudes – 4:17
21. In Paradisum – 4:57
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