This album is a reissue of classic performances of the requiems of Fauré and Duruflé by the Choir of King's College, Cambridge. The Fauré is heard in its 1900 version for full orchestra and organ, accompanied by the New Philharmonia Orchestra being conducted by David Willcocks. The Duruflé, conducted by Philip Ledger, is performed in its most ...
Gabriel Fauré once famously explained to a critic that he understood death to be "a welcome deliverance, as aspiration towards happiness above, rather than as a painful experience." This is certainly borne out by his setting of the Catholic Requiem Mass. Not only did Fauré decide not to include a setting of the Dies Irae -- the Day of Wrath that ...
With this disc, Harmonia Mundi's Century: A History of Music series moves onto what sports fans might call its home field: the Harmonia Mundi catalog is heavily stocked with discs by artists who have brought the music of the seventeenth century to life, and several of them, notably Les Arts Florissants and its Buffalo-to-Paris-transplanted leader ...
Fresh from the success of a 2006 Classic FM Gramophone Award-winning recording of the Dublin version of Messiah, conductor John Butt and the Dunedin Consort and Players have turned to Bach's Matthew Passion. This is an even more radical departure from traditional performing practice than the Consort's 12-member chorus for Messiah, which drew the ...
The Dunedin Consort, led by John Butt, has moved into the niche of recording original or obscure versions of Baroque choral masterworks using forces as close as possible to those of the original performances. Its 2006 performance of the Dublin version of Messiah is one of the liveliest and refreshingly intimate recordings of the work, and won a ...
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