Fauré: Requiem; Cantique de Jean Racine; Duruflé: Requiem; Quatre Motets

Christopher Keyte (Performer), Gabriel Faure (Composer), Francis Poulenc (Composer), Maurice Durufle (Composer), George Guest (Conductor), Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields (Orchestra), Stephen Cleobury (Performer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: Christopher Keyte, Stephen Cleobury
• Orchestra: Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields
• Conductor: George Guest
• Composer: Gabriel Faure, Francis Poulenc, Maurice Durufle
• Audio CD (June 13, 1995)
• Number of Discs: 2
• Label: Polygram Records
• ASIN: B00000420Y
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #164,412 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Sublime, April 6, 2000

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Sam Goddard (London) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Fauré: Requiem; Cantique de Jean Racine; Duruflé: Requiem; Quatre Motets (Audio CD)

Both Faure and Durufle furnish us with requiems that take us to the depths of despair and the heights of ecstacy. If you are looking for music that expreses tragedy, fragility, tempest, love and salvation through a brilliant interpretation then go no further. This is my favourite recording of these two requiems, a classic. On top of this, we hear Faure's beautiful Cantique de Jean Racine and some powerful works by Poulenc. If there is another CD that could sum up the dynamic range of classical music better, I have not yet found it.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Duruflés Requiem and original intentions., February 1, 2003

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Keith James Thomson (Allentown, PA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Fauré: Requiem; Cantique de Jean Racine; Duruflé: Requiem; Quatre Motets (Audio CD)

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 this sublime piece of choral music. Also, this performance is wonderful with a most lush and complex tone from the trebles in the boy choir.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Sublime versions and top class recordings., September 2, 2006

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F. Javier Calle - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Fauré: Requiem; Cantique de Jean Racine; Duruflé: Requiem; Quatre Motets (Audio CD)

This version of Durufle's Requiem is just mesmerizing, I have the Telarc, which is great... until you listen to this one.

Sound quality is top notch too for a seventies recording.