Faure: Requiem & Orchestral Works

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A superb anthology by Neville Marriner’s Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields includes a beautifully sung Requiem, a tender Pélleas et Mélisande Suite and a delectable Masques et bergamasques. — BBC Music Magazine, February 2019, 5 out of 5 stars

Release Date: 17th Aug 2018
Catalogue No: ELQ4824963
Label: Eloquence
Length: 77 minutes

Fauré: Requiem, Op. 48

Work length35:42

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Sylvia McNair (soprano), John Birch (organ), Thomas Allen (baritone)
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Chorus, Academy of St Martin in the Fields
Sir Neville Marriner
Recorded: 1993-01
Recording Venue: St. John's, Smith Square

1. Introitus: Requiem aeternam - Kyrie

Track length6:44

$1.10

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2. Offertorium: Domine Jesu Christe

Track length8:04

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3. Sanctus

Track length3:14

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4. Pie Jesu

Track length4:18

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5. Agnus Dei

Track length5:35

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6. Libera me

Track length4:28

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7. In paradisum

Track length3:19

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Fauré: Pelléas et Mélisande, Op. 80

Work length17:02

$4.40

$6.00

Academy of St Martin in the Fields
Sir Neville Marriner
Recorded: 1981-06-13
Recording Venue: St. Barnabas, North Finchley

1. Prélude

Track length5:58

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2. Andantino quasi Allegretto (La Fileuse)

Track length2:45

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3. Sicilienne

Track length3:58

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4. Molto Adagio

Track length4:21

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Fauré: Pavane, Op. 50

Work length5:49

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Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Chorus, Academy of St Martin in the Fields
Sir Neville Marriner
Recorded: 1981-06-13
Recording Venue: St. Barnabas, North Finchley

Fauré: Fantaisie, Op.79

Work length5:38

$1.10

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William Bennett (flute)
Academy of St Martin in the Fields
Sir Neville Marriner
Recorded: 1981-06-13
Recording Venue: St. Barnabas, North Finchley

Fauré: Masques et bergamasques, Op. 112

Work length13:40

$4.40

$6.00

Academy of St Martin in the Fields
Sir Neville Marriner
Recorded: 1981-06-13
Recording Venue: St. Barnabas, North Finchley

1. Ouverture

Track length3:44

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$1.50

2. Menuet

Track length2:39

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3. Gavotte

Track length3:10

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4. Pastorale

Track length4:07

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Fluent and luminously textured accounts of Fauré’s major choral and orchestral music, compiled on CD for the first time.

After the death of Sir Neville Marriner in October 2016 at the age of 91, Eloquence pays tribute to the conductor’s work on record with a Requiem – and the most gently consoling Requiem of them all – by Fauré. For this Philips recording in 1993, Marriner and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields were joined by a distinguished pair of soloists, baritone Thomas Allen and the soprano Sylvia McNair, who were critically praised at the time for their authoritative and sensitive contributions to a performance that achieves tenderness without sentimentality.

The breadth of Marriner’s repertoire and his extraordinary, almost unrivalled industry in the studio is amply demonstrated by the November 1982 issue of Gramophone, which contains reviews of no fewer than four new recordings by the conductor – and with three separate orchestras. As well as cello concertos with the Cleveland Orchestra, Offenbach overtures with the Philharmonia and Handel organ concertos with the Academy, an Argo LP of Fauré’s orchestral music – reissued complete here – was welcomed in terms which have become familiar to record-buyers down the years: for the conductor’s unobtrusive good taste, for the polish of the Academy players, highlighted by the exquisite solo contribution to the Fantaisie of the orchestra’s long-standing principal flute, William Bennett, and for the harmoniously balanced Argo recording in the London church of St John’s, Smith Square.

‘Pelléas et Mélisande is Fauré’s finest set of incidental music, and Marriner catches very well its supple movement, its rise and fall of intensity. His performance of Masques et Bergamasques has similar virtues.’ Gramophone, November 1982

‘Marriner and his players have an affectionate approach, with plenty of sensitivity in their shading and no lack of strength either, but all is accomplished at a tempo that has nothing over-insistent or pretentious about it.’ Gramophone, January 1996 (Requiem)

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February 2019

A superb anthology by Neville Marriner’s Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields includes a beautifully sung Requiem, a tender Pélleas et Mélisande Suite and a delectable Masques et bergamasques.

Faure: Requiem & Orchestral Works

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