Flemish Radio Choir, Hervé Niquet - Fauré: Requiem (2014) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist

01. Requiem, op. 48 (Gabriel Fauré): 1. Introit & Kyrie
02. Requiem, op. 48 (Gabriel Fauré): 2. Offertoire
03. Requiem, op. 48 (Gabriel Fauré): 3. Sanctus
04. Requiem, op. 48 (Gabriel Fauré): 4. Pie Jesu
05. Requiem, op. 48 (Gabriel Fauré): 5. Agnus Dei
06. Requiem, op. 48 (Gabriel Fauré): 6. Libera me
07. Requiem, op. 48 (Gabriel Fauré): 7. In Paradisum
08. Ave Verum (Charles Gounod)
09. Les Sept Paroles de Notre Seigneur Jésus-Christ sur la croix (Charles Gounod): Prologue
10. Les Sept Paroles de Notre Seigneur Jésus-Christ sur la croix (Charles Gounod): I. Præter euntes
11. Les Sept Paroles de Notre Seigneur Jésus-Christ sur la croix (Charles Gounod): II. Unus autem
12. Les Sept Paroles de Notre Seigneur Jésus-Christ sur la croix (Charles Gounod): III. Cum vidisset
13. Les Sept Paroles de Notre Seigneur Jésus-Christ sur la croix (Charles Gounod): IV. Tenebræ factæ sunt
14. Les Sept Paroles de Notre Seigneur Jésus-Christ sur la croix (Charles Gounod): V. Postea sciens Jesus
15. Les Sept Paroles de Notre Seigneur Jésus-Christ sur la croix (Charles Gounod): VI. Vas ergo erat
16. Les Sept Paroles de Notre Seigneur Jésus-Christ sur la croix (Charles Gounod): VII. Pater, in manus tuas


Over the last 500 years, man’s mortality has inspired a genre of unsurpassed profoundness in Western art music: whether conveying fear of death, hope of life after death, or just solace for those who stay behind, the Requiem is at once the rawest and most comforting musical embodiment of the fact that life on earth is finite.

On a series of five CDs, acclaimed conductor Hervé Niquet leads the Flemish Radio Choir in new recordings of iconic Requiems (by Brahms or Mozart), but he also delves into unjustly neglected music for the departed, such as the masses by Maurice Duruflé (1947) or Alfred Desenclos (1963).

The most imminent release in the series features the well-known Messe de Requiem by Gabriel Fauré (1888), which – recorded in the original chamber version with soloists of the Brussels Philharmonic – bears heart-warming testimony to Fauré’s desire to write “a lullaby of death, an aspiration towards happiness above, rather than a painful experience”.

Though nothing comes easier than eternal rest after Fauré’s lament, Ein Deutsches Requiem by Brahms – which will be the second instalment in the series – is worth a little longer sojourn on earth…

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