Faure: Requiem / Ballade in F Sharp / Cantique de Jean Racine

Faure: Requiem / Ballade in F Sharp / Cantique de Jean Racine

Faure: Requiem / Ballade in F Sharp / Cantique de Jean Racine

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Composer: Gabriel Faure
Conductor: Louis Fremaux
Orchestra: Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Performer: John Ogdon
Performer: Norma Burrowes
Performer: Brian Rayner Cook
Performer: David Bell
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2002-08-13
Music Label: EMI Classics
Soundtracks:

I: Introit And Kyrie
II: Offertoire
III: Sanctus
IV: Pie Jesu
V: Agnus Dei
VI: Libera Me
VII: In Paradisum
Cantique De Jean Racine, Op.11 - City Of Birmingham Symphony Chorus
Ballade For Piano And Orchestra, Op.19 - John Ogdon

Music reviews of Faure: Requiem / Ballade in F Sharp / Cantique de Jean Racine

Music Review: A powerful, darker-than-usual Requiem
Rating: 5 Stars

This 1977 recording of Gabriel Fauré's Requiem by the City of Birmingham Symphony and Chorus under conductor Louis Frémaux is one of the most refreshing versions of the work I have heard. I love the Fauré Requiem in a number of recordings, and one of my favorites is this one the Academy of St-Martin-in-the-Fields, which radiates a warm, peaceful tranquility.

This recording, however, is much darker than most others I have heard. It transforms this piece, which I always felt must be one of the lightest in the Requiem literature, into a dark, powerful, brooding piece. Quite remarkable for a recording to provide such a new experience with such a familiar work.

The two pieces that fill out the disc are also quite good. This is a great recording of the "Cantique Jean Racine", and a good performance of the less familiar "Ballade for Piano and Orchestra". I didn't care for the "Ballade" quite as much, but it is a nice piano work with some good secondary carrying on the melodic parts by the wind section.

Overall, this album is highly recommended, with a powerful reading of the Requiem that I'm sure will be playing on my stereo pretty frequently for a time.

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Gramophone: This has always been one of the best recorded performances of Faure's Requiem...The choral singing is excellent, Burrows is touchingly pure in her solo and Cook is effectively earnest in his.

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