Fauré & Duruflé: Requiem

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Here's almost two and a half hours of bliss. These are recordings to set aside for the time when, as the prayer says, 'the busy world is hushed'. Asked to characterise Fauré's and Duruflé's Requiems... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

Catalogue No: 4364862
Label: Decca
Series: Double Decca
Length: 2 hours 26 minutes

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Fauré: Requiem, Op. 48

Work length36:59

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Benjamin Luxon (baritone), Jonathon Bond (treble), Stephen Cleobury (organ)
Choir of St John's College Cambridge, Academy of St Martin in the Fields
George Guest
Recorded: 1975-07-29
Recording Venue: St. John's College, Cambridge

1. Introitus: Requiem aeternam - Kyrie

Track length5:56

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2. Offertorium: Domine Jesu Christe

Track length8:51

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3. Sanctus

Track length3:34

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4. Pie Jesu

Track length3:32

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5. Agnus Dei

Track length6:02

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6. Libera me

Track length5:24

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7. In paradisum

Track length3:40

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Fauré: Cantique de Jean Racine, Op. 11

Work length5:43

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Stephen Cleobury (organ)
Choir of St John's College Cambridge
George Guest
Recorded: 1975-07-29
Recording Venue: St. John's College, Cambridge

Fauré: Messe basse

Work length9:16

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Andrew Brunt (treble), Stephen Cleobury (organ)
Choir of St John's College Cambridge
George Guest
Recorded: 1969-12
Recording Venue: St. John's College, Cambridge

Kyrie

Track length1:59

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Sanctus

Track length2:09

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Benedictus

Track length2:22

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Agnus Dei

Track length2:46

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Poulenc: Mass in G major

Work length17:01

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Jonathon Bond (treble)
Choir of St John's College Cambridge
George Guest
Recorded: 1976-12
Recording Venue: St. John's College, Cambridge

1. Kyrie

Track length3:14

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2. Gloria

Track length3:45

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3. Sanctus

Track length2:42

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4. Benedictus

Track length3:01

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5. Agnus Dei

Track length4:19

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Poulenc: Salve Regina

Work length4:27

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Choir of St John's College Cambridge
George Guest
Recorded: 1976-12
Recording Venue: St. John's College, Cambridge

Duruflé: Requiem, Op. 9

Work length41:19

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Christopher Keyte (bass (vocal)), Robert King (treble), Stephen Cleobury (organ)
Choir of St John's College Cambridge
George Guest
Recorded: 1974-03-16
Recording Venue: St. John's College, Cambridge

Introït: Kyrie

Track length8:16

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Domine Jesu Christe

Track length8:45

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Sanctus (II)

Track length3:36

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Pie Jesu

Track length3:17

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Agnus Dei (II)

Track length4:09

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Lux Aeterna

Track length4:27

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Libera me (II)

Track length5:56

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In paradisum (II)

Track length2:53

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Duruflé: Prelude & Fugue sur le nom d'Alain, Op. 7

Work length11:54

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Stephen Cleobury (organ)
Recorded: 1974-03-16
Recording Venue: St. John's College, Cambridge

Duruflé: Quatre Motets sur des thèmes grégoriens, Op. 10

Work length8:31

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Choir of St John's College Cambridge
George Guest
Recorded: 1969-12
Recording Venue: St. John's College, Cambridge

Ubi caritas et amor

Track length2:26

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Tota pulchra es

Track length2:06

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Tu es petrus

Track length0:51

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Tantum ergo sacramentum

Track length3:08

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Poulenc: Litanies à la Vierge noire

Work length8:46

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Stephen Cleobury (organ)
Choir of St John's College Cambridge
George Guest
Recorded: 1969-12
Recording Venue: St. John's College, Cambridge

Poulenc: Exultate Deo

Work length3:04

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Choir of St John's College Cambridge
George Guest
Recorded: 1977

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2010

Here's almost two and a half hours of bliss. These are recordings to set aside for the time when, as the prayer says, 'the busy world is hushed'. Asked to characterise Fauré's and Duruflé's Requiems as compared with others, we might suggest words such as 'delicate', 'meditative', 'undramatic'; but that last would be a mistake. These performances certainly do not go out of their way to 'be' dramatic or anything else other than faithful to the music, but one is struck by the power exercised by those rare moments that rise to a forte and above.
The choir is surely at its best, the trebles with their fine clear-cut, distinctive tone, the tenors (so important in the Fauré) graceful and refined without being precious, the altos exceptionally good, and only the basses just occasionally and briefly plummy or obtrusive in some way.
The Poulenc works further test a choir's virtuosity yet in the extremely difficult Mass, the choir seems secure, and in the Salve Regina they catch the necessary tenderness. The treble soloists sing beautifully, Christopher Keyte dramatises almost too convincingly in Duruflé's 'tremens factus', and Benjamin Luxon, his production less even, builds finely in Fauré's Libera me. These recordings have a vividness, certainly in the choral sound, that modern recordings generally lack.

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