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Fauré: Requiem; Fauré/Messager: Messe des pêcheurs de Villerville
HMM 931292 (harmonia mundi, CD)
REISSUE (21 July 2023)
Playing time: 56'15:
Tracks: 12
Booklet pages: 28
℗ 1988 harmonia mundi musique sas
© 2023 harmonia mundi musique sas
Main country of recording: France
Country of manufacture: Netherlands
Reviewer: Gerald Fenech
Review of Fauré: Requiem; Fauré/Messager: Messe des pêcheurs de Villerville published on 28 June 2023
Agnès Mellon, soprano
Peter Kooy, baritone
La Chapelle Royale
Les Petits Chanteurs de Saint-Louis
Ensemble Musique Oblique
Philippe Herreweghe, conductor
Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924):
Requiem, Op 48 (1893, for soprano, baritone, choir and orchestra)
1 Introït
2 Offertoire
3 Sanctus
4 Pie Jesu
5 Agnus Dei
6 Libera me
7 In Paradisum
Gabriel Fauré / André Messager (1853-1929):
Messe des pêcheurs de Villerville (1881, for female voices, chamber orchestra and harmonium)
8 Kyrie (Messager)
9 Gloria (Fauré)
10 Sanctus (Fauré)
11 O Salutaris (Messager)
12 Agnus Dei (Fauré)
In 1988, Philippe Herreweghe and his musicians recorded a pioneering disc of Fauré's Requiem in its 1893 version. The French composer's masterpiece received an ideal interpretation, displaying restrained emotion alongside clarity and precision.
Recorded in France in September 1988.