Fauré: Requiem; Poulenc: Mass in G; Duruflé: Two Motets (2006)

Gabriel Fauré once famously explained to a critic that he understood death to be "a welcome deliverance, as aspiration towards happiness above, rather than as a painful experience." This is certainly borne out by his setting of the Catholic Requiem Mass. Not only did Fauré decide not to include a setting of the Dies Irae -- the Day of Wrath that Verdi so memorably and so terrifyingly set in his Requiem -- he decided to include a closing In Paradisum, a vision of the heavenly fields of paradise. While this conception of ... Read More

Gabriel Fauré once famously explained to a critic that he understood death to be "a welcome deliverance, as aspiration towards happiness above, rather than as a painful experience." This is certainly borne out by his setting of the Catholic Requiem Mass. Not only did Fauré decide not to include a setting of the Dies Irae -- the Day of Wrath that Verdi so memorably and so terrifyingly set in his Requiem -- he decided to include a closing In Paradisum, a vision of the heavenly fields of paradise. While this conception of death may strike more bloodthirsty listeners as dull and sentimental, there is nothing inherently dull or sentimental about Fauré's Requiem -- it is rather a work of refined gentleness and elevated emotionality. Unfortunately, too many recordings of the work mistake dullness for gentleness and sentimentality for emotionality.Not so with this soulful and spiritual 1982 recording of the Requiem with Philip Ledger leading the Choir of King's College Cambridge and the English Chamber... Read Less

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