Durufl é’s masterpiece
harmonia
of spirituality
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DURUFLÉ
Requiem, Four Motets
undi
Messe ‘Cum Jubilo’
Four Pieces for Organ
Magid El-Bushra (counter-tenor)
Mark Chaundy (tenor)
Peter Harvey (baritone)
Martin Ford (organ)
Richard Pinel (organ)
English Sinfonia,
Choir of Magdalen College, Oxford
Bill Ives
harmonia mundi • HMU 807480
Aa93046c&$*)^\R
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SACD Hybrid/ Stereo & Multi-channel/ DSD
In 1961, the 59-year-old Maurice Durufl é put the fi nishing touches to the third and last version of his
Requiem, composed fourteen years previously. The work is wholly, one might say consubstantially, built on
the Gregorian melodies of the Mass of the Dead. The composer had already transcribed some of these themes
for the organ, in works featured here as well. Hence this entire program underlines the artistic and spiritual
coherence of Durufl é’s approach. Bill Ives leads the men and boys of the Choir of Magdalen College, Oxford
and the players of the English Sinfonia in a glorious disc, rich in timbre and deeply spiritual.
“These young choral scholars are an impressive
group of musicians.”
N
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— BBC Radio 3
v
ember
2008
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