Duruflé - Requiem, Op.9 & Motets (Teresa Berganza, J. Van Dam - Century's recording: Michel Corboz)

Maurice Duruflé (1902-1986) Requiem, Op.9 pour soli, choeur, orchestre et orgue.
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00:00 Introït (chœur)
03:42 Kyrie (chœur)
07:51 Domine Jesu (baryton, chœur)
16:04 Sanctus (chœur)
19:13 Pie Jesu (mezzo-soprano)
22:45 Agnus Dei (chœur)
27:05 Lux aeterna (chœur)
31:18 Libera me (baryton, chœur)
36:42 In Paradisum (chœur)

Teresa BERGANZA, mezzo-soprano
José Van DAM, baryton
Philippe CORBOZ, orgue / organ
Ensemble Vocal « Audite Nova » de Paris
Chef des chœurs : Jean SOURISSE
Choeur et orchestre Colonne
Direction : Michel CORBOZ

Quatre Motets sur des thèmes Grégoriens pour choeur a cappella
40:04 I. Ubi caritas et amor
42:10 II. Tota pulchra es
44:09 III. Tu es Petrus
45:03 IV. Tantum ergo

Ensemble Vocal « Audite Nova » de Paris
Direction : Jean SOURISSE

Live recording in 1984-85, at Paris
New mastering in 2021 by AB for CM//RR
Painting: Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) Vergine delle rocce
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Fauré, in composing a mass for the dead, had arise a gentle dawn in the light of love and hope. Maurice Duruflé followed it in spirit, if not to the letter. Like Fauré, he was imbued with the tradition of Gregorian plain-chant, retaining its colour and relief. Expressive like sighs, the Gregorian neumes are also supple like cloth. Duruflé meditated upon the service for the dead, ans each time he was able to use a textual motif, he did not hesitate to do so, just as he delved into the voluptuousness of contemporary harmony, which Ravel and Fauré - the latter nicknamed "the voluptuous Gregorianiser" by Reynaldo Hahn - showed that it fitted perfectly into the archaism of the modal scales. On antique thoughts, Duruflé created new verses. The plain-chant themes are first presented nude, then clothed in a harmonic garb both sumptuous and sober: here lies the composer's extreme skill, who constantly mancuvers between two pitfalls, dryness and anachronism, both avoided with disconcerting mastery.

Fauré - Requiem Op.48, Pie Jesu, In Paradisium, Libera Me, Sanctus .. (ref.rec.: Michel Corboz): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flboe048gn4&list=PL3UZpQL9LIxPwwX_kYZ0ZyhcBsDttdtGC&index=1

Fauré and Duruflé PLAYLIST (reference recordings): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3UZpQL9LIxPwwX_kYZ0ZyhcBsDttdtGC

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