thomas beveridge's yizkor requiem recognizes both. performed here by the orchestra and chorus of london's st. martin-in-the-fields, the music is emotional and cerebral- suggestive, even, at times, haunting. ♪ conducted by sir neville marriner and recorded for the milken archive of american jewish music, the "yizkor requiem" was composed by beveridge not just to remind listeners of what beveridge says "really matters," but also to combine, musically, two faiths. >> i realized that i could put together a piece that kind of stands on the bridge between the two religions, the christian religion and the jewish religion, and takes a look at, simultaneously, at the ritual for the dead. >> reporter: beveridge says he was inspired to compose this piece after the 1991 death of his father, an episcopal priest and scholar who immersed himself in both faiths. it was, says beveridge, "a quest for spiritual roots." >> my quest and my father's quest. my father inspired me to look at the origins of christian liturgy in the synagogue. i mean, that's ba