Duruflé: Requiem

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Patricia Bardon mezzo-soprano
Ashley Riches baritone-bass

The Choir of King’s College, Cambridge
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Directed by Stephen Cleobury

Released 9 September 2016

CD/SACD hybrid

SKU: KGS0016
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King’s College’s recording of the Fauré Requiem was the best-selling core classical album of 2014. For this new recording featuring another great French Requiem, the Choir is reunited with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment to perform Maurice Duruflé’s 1947 Requiem, in the composer’s own version for soprano, choir, organ and small orchestra. The album is completed with the Messe Cum Jubilo for male voices and the Four Motets, mirroring Fauré’s Messe Basse for boys on the earlier album to which this is very much a partner.

The most famous of the Four Motets is Ubi Caritas (‘Where charity and love are, God is there’), a staple of the Choir’s Easter repertoire which was sung at Downing Street when the Choir attended the Prime Minister’s Easter Reception in 2013. The Choir is joined by Patricia Bardon – youngest ever winner of the Cardiff Singer of the World Competition – for the Pie Jesu of the Requiem, with the other solo sections sung by the Choral Scholars of the Choir in accordance with Duruflé’s instructions. Former Choral Scholar Ashley Riches returns to the Choir as soloist in the Messe Cum Jubilo.

“You’ll get a real sense of the drama, the dynamic range of the recording, the colour and that famous acoustic of the baleful period trumpets.” – BBC Radio 3

“beautifully done […] an excellent disc” – MusicWeb-international.com

 

Requiem (1961 version) Duruflé, Maurice
1 i. Introït 03:32
2 ii. Kyrie 03:28
3 iii. Domine Jesu Christe 07:58
4 iv. Sanctus 03:20
5 v. Pie Jesu 03:17
6 vi. Agnus Dei 03:46
7 vii. Lux æterna 03:52
8 viii. Libera me 05:31
9 ix. In Paradisum 02:52
Quatre Motets sur des thèmes Grégoriens   Duruflé, Maurice
10 i. Ubi caritas et amor 01:57
11 ii. Tota pulchra es 01:59
12 iii. Tu es Petrus 00:54
13 iv. Tantum ergo 02:42
Messe “Cum Jubilo” (1967 version)   Duruflé, Maurice
14 i. Kyrie 03:17
15 ii. Gloria 05:35
16 iii. Sanctus 03:26
17 iv. Benedictus 01:58
18 v. Agnus Dei 04:25
Total playing time – 63:49

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Recorded at 96kHz 24-bit PCM 5.1 surround sound in the Chapel of King’s College, Cambridge, by kind permission of the Provost and Fellows, 7-8 & 11-12 January 2016.

Producer & Editor  Simon Kiln
Recording Engineer  Arne Akselberg
Mixing Engineer  Arne Akselberg
Technical Engineer  Richard Hale
CD & SACD Mastering Engineers  Simon Gibson & Andrew Walter

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