Faure: Requiem and Other Choral Music

Faure: Requiem and Other Choral Music

John Rutter's groundbreaking research and subsequent performing edition of FaurÃ©'s beloved Requiem has enabled us to hear the work as the composer originally intended. His first version of the piece included only a chamber orchestra with lower strings, harp, timpani, and organ. Four years later, FaurÃ© added two movements and slightly expanded the orchestration. This is the version that Rutter and his inimitable Cambridge Singers perform here-- and it's a glorious revelation, especially if the only FaurÃ© Requiem you've heard is that for full orchestra, which the composer himself neither created nor approved. Rutter and his singers give us a wonderfully sumptuous yet detailed performance that benefits tremendously from the newly realized clarity of inner lines and from the richly colored orchestral textures. --David Vernier
Country USA
Manufacturer Collegium Records
Binding Audio CD
ItemPartNumber 83120
ReleaseDate 1988-09-15
UnitCount 1
UPCs 409350831201
EANs 0409350831263

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