Duruflé: Requiem The Choir of King's College Cambridge & Stephen Cleobury

• Maurice Duruflé (1902-1986):
• 1 Requiem, Op. 9: Introit 03:32
• Maurice Duruflé (1902-1986): Requiem, Op. 9:
• 2 Kyrie 03:28
• 3 Domine Jesu Christe 07:58
• 4 Sanctus 03:20
• 5 Pie Jesu 03:17
• 6 Agnus Dei 03:46
• 7 Lux aeterna 03:52
• 8 Libera me 05:31
• 9 In Paradisum 02:52
• 10 No. 1. Ubi caritas 01:57
• 11 No. 2. Tota pulchra es 01:59
• 12 No. 3. Tu es Petrus 00:54
• 13 No. 4. Tantum ergo 02:42
• Mass, Op. 11, Cum jubilo:
• 14 Kyrie 03:17
• 15 Gloria 05:25
• 16 Sanctus 03:26
• 17 Benedictus 01:58
• 18 Agnus Dei 04:25
• Total Runtime 01:03:39

Info for Duruflé: Requiem

For this new recording the choir are 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 and 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 prize-winner of the Cardiff Singer of the World Competition, for the 'Pie Jesu' of the Requiem, with the other solo sections sung by the men of the choir in accordance with Duruflé’s instructions. Former choral scholar Ashley Riches, also a former member of the Royal Opera House Jette Parker Young Artists programme, returns to the choir as soloist in the 'Messe Cum Jubilo'.

This recording represents the last time the organ at King’s was played before it was removed for substantial restoration.

Patricia Bardon, contralto
Ashley Riches, baritone
English Chamber Orchestra
King's College Choir, Cambridge
Cambridge King's College Choir
Stephen Cleobury, conductor

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