Fauré: Requiem

John Carol Case (Performer), Gabriel Faure (Composer), David Willcocks (Conductor), Cambridge King's College Choir (Orchestra), New Philharmonia Orchestra (Orchestra), Bob Chilcott (Performer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: John Carol Case, Bob Chilcott
• Orchestra: Cambridge King's College Choir, New Philharmonia Orchestra
• Conductor: David Willcocks
• Composer: Gabriel Faure
• Audio CD (June 8, 1993)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Angel Records
• ASIN: B000002S4X
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #60,903 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Requiem Op. 48: I: Introit et Kyrie

2. Requiem Op. 48: II: Offertoire - John Carol Case/Chor Of King's College

3. Requiem Op. 48: III: Sanctus

4. Requiem Op. 48: IV: Pie Jesu - Robert Chilcott/Chor Of King's College

5. Requiem Op. 48: V: Agnus Dei

6. Requiem Op. 48: VI: Libera Me - John Carol Case/Chor Of King's College

7. Requiem Op. 48: VII: In Paradisum

8. Pavane Op. 50 - Gareth Morris

Customer Reviews

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Possibly the best performance, December 16, 2006

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Carlos Gonzalez (COCONUT CREEK, FL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Fauré: Requiem (Audio CD)

Faure's Requiem is one of my favorite pieces. I have several different versions of it on CD and have even performed it myself with choir and orchestra (I am a tenor).
Based on the excellent reviews I went ahead and purchased this version and I am listening to it as I write this review.
This is definitely the clearest and cleanest performance of this requiem I have heard yet. I enthusiastically recommend it.
If you like Faure, also try Pelleas & Melisande. The Deutsche Grammophon version with Seiji Ozawa is very good. I had lost my tape and decided to purchase the CD recently. It comes with one of the best chorus versions of the Pavane (the one on this Requiem CD is very good but instrumental only).

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Flawless, October 10, 2006

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P. Willson (United States) - See all my reviews
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I have been sampling other performances of the beautiful, moving Requiem, but there simply is no other as pure, and perfectly balanced -- the sorrow and darkness of grief is here, but unlike other requiems, in a way that touches the heart gently, lightly, and soothes the pain of loss. When you hear this recording, you somehow know that death is not the end.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A timeless classic from King's College, December 29, 2011

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Ralph Moore "Ralph operaphile" (Bishop's Stortford, UK) - See all my reviews
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I have known this recording for over forty years since I first sang the piece in my school choir and since as the baritone soloist, and I have never found one to match it. The pure, cool sound of the King's College trebles is ideal; there is none of the distracting edge or unsteadiness too often encountered in rival versions - surprisingly, even in the recording on the Regis label by David Hill conducting the normally excellent Westminster Cathedral Choir - and Willcocks knows exactly how to pace the proceedings and shade the dynamics. Treble soloist Robert Chilcott sings divinely, dead on the note without gulps or scoops, while John Carol Case's plaintive baritone hits just the right tone of entreaty.

The sound is remarkably clean despite the resonant acoustic. This is still the best version available.