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Faure: Requiem and other choral music | 
 enlarge | Creators: Stephen Varcoe, Gabriel Faure, John Rutter, London Sinfonia [members Of], John Scott, Caroline Ashton, Nicola-jane Kemp, Ruth Holton, Simon Standage
Label: Collegium
Category: Music
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Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 30965
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
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Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 4.9 x 0.3
MPN: 109
UPC: 040888010920
EAN: 0040888010920
ASIN: B0000031HB
Release Date: February 29, 2000
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| Tracks:
| • | Introit et Kyrie | | • | Offertoire | | • | Sanctus | | • | Pie Jesu | | • | Agnus Dei | | • | Libera me | | • | In paradisum | | • | Ave verum Corpus | | • | Tantum ergo | | • | Kyrie eleison | | • | Sanctus | | • | Benedictus | | • | Agnus Dei |
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John Rutter's groundbreaking research and subsequent performing edition of Faure'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, Faure 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 Faure 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
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| Customer Reviews:
 Beautifully Haunting August 16, 2007
J. W. Briede (Yorktown, VA USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
After hearing this piece of work on two different occasions on the same day, I felt that I needed to have it. All the choices always make it difficult to choose, so I ended up buying this version. I am utterly amazed with this beautiful piece of music, by its the performers and just the cd in general.
It's Beauty Revealed, At Last January 11, 2007
C. S. Williams (Chicago Burbs, IL)
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
This Collegium COLCD 109 is a later release of the Collegium COLCD 101 which I purchased circa 1985 after reading glowing reviews in Grammophone magazine. COLCD 101 is labeled Stereo/Digital. COLCD 109 is labeled Stereo/DDD. Is it a re-mastering? Liner notes don't say, but the new version provides noticeable improvements in vividness and clarity.
The release of COLCD 101 was a watershed event. John Rutter had questioned conventional performance versions of Faure's Requiem, those which used full symphony orchestras and Wagnerian-like soloists. Yes, it is a requiem, but Faure's ideas are very different than those found in, say, Verdi's Requiem. Instead of hellfire and damnation, Faure evokes serenity, peace and love. Rutter's historical research proved that Faure intended for his work to be performed in small, intimate settings where the orchestra and choir would be minimal and, maybe, use boy sopranos. Rutter's CD of the historical, 1893, version is like an expert restoration of an old painting where a century's grime is wiped away and the work is newly revealed in it's original beauty.
A 1990's CD of the 1893 version exists on Naxos 8.55076S by Jeremy Summerly and the Oxford Camerata. It, too, is beautiful and of similar performance quality, though conducted at a slightly slower tempo. I find Rutter's version more "right", but that's just personal preference.
Life has been engulfed in time August 6, 2003
Jacques COULARDEAU (OLLIERGUES France)
29 out of 42 found this review helpful
This requiem represents a complete shift in the general tone of the requiem as a genre. The vision of life and death is impregnated with a feminine light, the light of the ocean softly illuminated by the sunshine of Normandy, of the Graceful Coast. The figure that stands behind the music, that accompanies the dead person into the grave is no longer the masculine Germanic death that punishes man, nor even the furious feminine French death that challenges man, but the soft and comforting figure of the mother Mary, the universal comforter who takes the hand of each one of us, as if we were crying lost children, to make us pass the dangerous door that leads beyond life. This Holy Mary for whom Faure has written so many Ave Marias, is promising us the end of time and our introduction into an everlasting stormless, painless and noiseless world that represents the very positive vision of a real world that is the negative vision of life. Photography is not far away. Everyday life becomes a life of strife, struggle, noise, violence, war, speed, work, exploitation and alienation, all elements seen as negative, and death is the negation of it all, is the positive virtuality that has to become our reality overthere. It is thus in perfect agreement with the vision the impressionists introduced to defy photography and bring art beyond the blaring image of reality a photographer brings up with his machine. The eye of the artist goes beyond those crude colors and forms to find light and life in the depth of his retina. Faure is the impressionist painter of death as the real life beyond the surface we have to contemplate and suffer everyday. In other words virtual is beautiful and real is dreadful. Happiness has to be found in virtuality and not in reality. Faure is bergsonian, who sees eternity beyond the flow of time. Faure is proustian, who sees life beyond the loss of memory. This explains the erasing of the Dies Irae because there is no anger any more in the ascent to the eternal memory of what does not exist yet. This is a requiem of timelessness and nightlessness.Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University of Perpignan
Requiem- a masterpiece. April 21, 2002
Lilly (13 yrs) (Los Angeles, CA)
32 out of 35 found this review helpful
This exquisite collection has so many gorgeous songs that move me to tears. In Sanctus, the violin is so pure, so beautiful, its wrings my heart. This is real music, real art, crafted with such care, that it is a true privilege to hear it, not to mention sing it (which I have done, and I loved it). It is an encredible CD, and I would encourage anyone to buy it.
Lilly
 high quality but lacking emotion August 31, 2001
H. Kraus (El Cerrito, CA USA)
34 out of 42 found this review helpful
One reviewer describes this as "no lack of sadness, bright, not gloomy, filled with sunshine"; another calls it "peaceful". I might go with peaceful. The quality is high and the recording is of interest for being more faithful to Faure's original, non-orchestral version, but I found the performance notably lacking in emotion. I would steer the reader toward the more deeply moving Naxos version (conductor: Jeremy Summerly), which is something of a gem at budget price.
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