Fauré: Requiem; Messe basse; Cantique de Jean Racine
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Composer: Gabriel FaureComposer: Deodat de Severac
Composer: Louis Vierne
Conductor: Jeremy Summerly
Performer: Oxford Camerata
Performer: Schola Cantorum of Oxford
Performer: Colm Carey
Performer: Lisa Beckley
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1994-11-29
Music Label: Naxos
Soundtracks:
- Gabriel Faure: Requiem: I. Introit Et Kyrie
- II. Offertoire
- III. Sanctus
- IV. Pie Jesu
- V. Agnus Dei
- VI. Libera Me
- VII. In Paradisum
- Louis Vierne: Andantino
- Deodat De Severac: Tantum Ergo
- Gabriel Faure: Messe Basse: I. Kyrie
- II. Sanctus
- III. Benedictus
- IV. Agnus Dei
- Gabriel Faure: Cantique De Jean Racine, Op. 11
Music reviews of Fauré: Requiem; Messe basse; Cantique de Jean Racine
Music Review: A meditative alternative to all those booming requiems.
Rating: 5 Stars
After Mozart, requiems in the Romantic era became progressively noisier, employing vast orchestral and vocal forces, whether to shake the heavens, make vivid the torments of death and purgatory, or as a humanist act of defiance. It was in reaction to one such work, Berlioz's ear-shattering Requiem, that Faure composed his small-scale masterpiece, for choir, four violas, 4 cellos, solo violin and organ. Very few Requiems actually sound like the moment of death, the passing of the soul from the dead body, but Faure's does - the almost intolerable bass weight created by the violas, cellos and organ contrast with the free-floating ethereality of the singing, or the liberated violin. First performed in 1888, this Requiem is closer to the sacred work of JS Bach - the haunting minimalism, with voice often accompanied by a solo instrument, or the organ, with all its potential for massive bluster, played with the clarity and delicacy of a harpsichord, creates a tension of anxiety and serenity. There is plenty of drama too, the gathering momentum of the opening 'Kyrie', the swirling insistence of the famous 'Agnes Dei', the quietly frightening vision of Judgement Day in 'Libera Me', all given extra force by the restrained surroundings. This Requiem was soon expanded to Romantic scoring which, regrettably, is the version best known today. This issue returns to Faure's orignal intentions, and is a hushed revelation. Jeremy Summerly, with his Oxford Camerata and Schola Cantorum, are usually to be found in the stringently intellectual repetoire of Early/Renaissance Music, and they bring a cool, un-Romantic discpline to the work that allows it to move and breathe without any hyped-up emotion. This priceless CD also includes Faure's 'Messe Basse' for female voices and organ, his unutterably beautiful 'Cantique de Jean Racine', countering the near-violence of the text with intricate melodic repose; and two works by French composers of the next generation, Vierne's organ test-piece, 'Andantino', which sounds like the score for a lost great horror movie, and de Severac's 'Tantum Ergo'.
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