Choir of St John's College, Cambridge, George Guest - Fauré, Duruflé: Requiem (1994) CD-Rip

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Title: Fauré, Duruflé: Requiem
Year Of Release: 1994
Label: Decca
Genre: Classical
Quality: FLAC (image+.cue,log,scans)
Total Time: 149:21
Total Size: 635 Mb
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Tracklist:

CD 1:
Gabriel Fauré - Requiem, for 2 solo voices, chorus, organ & orchestra, Op. 48
1. Introitus et Kyrie 6:00
2. Offertorium 8:54
3. Sanctus 3:37
4. Pie Jesu 3:35
5. Agnus Dei 6:05
6. Libera me 5:26
7. In Paradisum 3:46
8. Cantique de Jean Racine, for 4-part chorus & organ (or orchestra), Op. 11 5:50
Messe basse, for solo voices, chorus & organ
9. Kyrie 2:00
10. Sanctus 2:10
11. Benedictus 2:23
12. Agnus Dei 2:51
Francis Poulenc - Mass in G major for chorus, FP 89
13. Kyrie (Anime et tres rythme) 3:14
14. Gloria (Tres anime) 3:47
15. Sanctus (Tres allant et doucement joyeux) 2:42
16. Benedicuts (Calme mais sans lenteur) 3:01
17. Agnus dei (Tres pur, tres clair et modere) 4:25
18. Salve Regina, for chorus, FP 110 4:27

CD 2:
Maurice Duruflé - Requiem, for orchestra, organ & chorus; for organ & chorus; for small ensemble, organ & chorus, Op. 9
1. Introït - Kyrie 8:20
2. Domine Jesu Christe 8:49
3. Sanctus 3:40
4. Pie Jesu 3:25
5. Agnus Dei 4:14
6. Lux Aeterna 4:31
7. Libera me 6:00
8. In Paradisum 3:04
9. Prelude and Fugue on the name A.L.A.I.N., for organ, Op. 7 12:04
Motets (4) on Gregorian Themes, for chorus, Op.10
10. Ubi Caritas et Amor 2:29
11. Tota pulchra es 2:09
12. Tu es Petrus 0:54
13. Tantum ergo Sacramentum 3:17
14. Francis Poulenc - Litanies à la Vierge Noire, for women's chorus & organ (or strings & timpani), FP 82 8:55
15. Exultate Deo, motet for solemn occasions, for chorus, FP 109 3:04

Performers:
Choir of St John's College, Cambridge
George Guest - conductor
Stephen Cleobury - organ
Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields

Both Duruflé and Fauré wrote their Requiems for choir and organ first. The orchestrations were afterthoughts bending to the excesses of public appeal and publishers' demands, at least that's what I was taught in college. Both works can be wonderful with orchestra and on this CD, the consistently excellent St. Martin in the Fields gives a beautiful interpretation of the Fauré Requem with orchestra. However, on this CD you will find the Duruflé Requiem in the original choir and organ only version, and this, in my opinion, is by far the best way to hear the Duruflé Requiem, this sublime piece of choral music. And this performance is wonderful with a most lush and complex tone from the trebles in the boy choir.


Choir of St John's College, Cambridge, George Guest - Fauré, Duruflé: Requiem (1994) CD-Rip