Hervé Niquet / Flemish Radio Choir
Fauré Requiem
- Type CD
- Label Evil Penguin
- UPC 0608917720129
- Catalog number EPRC 0015
- Release date 26 September 2014
About the album
Over the last 500 years, man’s mortality has inspired a genre of unsurpassed profoundness in Western art music: whether conveying fear of death, hope of life after death, or just solace for those who stay behind, the Requiem is at once the rawest and most comforting musical embodiment of the fact that life on earth is finite.
On a series of five albums, acclaimed conductor Hervé Niquet leads the Flemish Radio Choir in new recordings of iconic Requiems (by Brahms or Mozart), but he also delves into unjustly neglected music for the departed, such as the masses by Maurice Duruflé (1947) or Alfred Desenclos (1963).
The most imminent release in the series features the well-known Messe de Requiem by Gabriel Fauré (1888), which – recorded in the original chamber version with soloists of the Brussels Philharmonic – bears heart-warming testimony to Fauré’s desire to write “a lullaby of death, an aspiration towards happiness above, rather than a painful experience”.
Though nothing comes easier than eternal rest after Fauré’s lament, Ein Deutsches Requiem by Brahms – which will be the second instalment in the series – is worth a little longer sojourn on earth…
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11Messe de Requiem Op. 48 (1877 - 1893) I. Introitus – Kyrie
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12Messe de Requiem Op. 48 (1877 - 1893) II. Offertorium
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13Messe de Requiem Op. 48 (1877 - 1893) III. Sanctus
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14Messe de Requiem Op. 48 (1877 - 1893) IV. Pie Jesu
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15Messe de Requiem Op. 48 (1877 - 1893) V. Agnus Dei
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16Messe de Requiem Op. 48 (1877 - 1893) VI. Libera Me
04:28 -
17Messe de Requiem Op. 48 (1877 - 1893) VII. In Paradisum
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18Ave Verum (1853)
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19Les sept paroles du Christ sur la croix (1855) Prologue
03:32 -
110Les sept paroles du Christ sur la croix (1855) I. Præter euntes
02:16 -
111Les sept paroles du Christ sur la croix (1855) II. Unus autem
02:33 -
112Les sept paroles du Christ sur la croix (1855) III. Cum vidisset
02:05 -
113Les sept paroles du Christ sur la croix (1855) IV. Tenebræ factæ sunt
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114Les sept paroles du Christ sur la croix (1855) V. Postea sciens Jesus
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115Les sept paroles du Christ sur la croix (1855) VI. Vas ergo erat
02:12 -
116Les sept paroles du Christ sur la croix (1855) VII. Pater, in manus tuas
01:51