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Like Fauré in his Requiem, Duruflé's omits most of the liturgical Dies irae, but sets its part Pie Jesu. He includes Libera me and In Paradisum, from the burial service, again like Fauré, focused on calmness and a meditative character. The central movement, Pie Jesu, has the only solo for the mezzo-soprano.
The settings of the Requiem Mass by Marc-Antoine Charpentier (H.234, H.263, H.269, H.427), Luigi Cherubini, Antonin Dvořák, Gabriel Fauré, Maurice Duruflé, John Rutter, Karl Jenkins, Kim André Arnesen and Fredrik Sixten include a "Pie Jesu" as an independent movement. Decidedly, the best known is the "Pie Jesu" from Fauré's Requiem.
The work also has a distinctive Gallic quality, which it shares with Fauré’s Requiem, written 60 years earlier in 1867. ... “Julia actually sang the ‘Pie Jesu’ section when we did it in ...
Elena Firsova – Requiem, Op.100 (Text by Anna Akhmatova) Dmitri Kabalevsky – War Requiem (Text by Robert Rozhdestvensky) Sergei Taneyev – Cantata John of Damascus, Op.1 (Text by Alexey Tolstoy) Chinese. Tyzen Hsiao – Ilha Formosa: Requiem for Formosa's Martyrs, 2001 (Text by Min-yung Lee, 1994) Fan-Long Ko – 2-28 Requiem, 2008. (Text ...
Mark Rochester of Gramophone writes of the 'highly polished, virtually flawless sound of the Houston Chamber Choir' on the project. [6] James Manheim of AllMusic writes 'The album presents all of Duruflé's choral music, which fits conveniently on one CD, and it offers both distinctive performances and really superb recording of an impressive organ.'. [7]
"Libera me" ("Deliver me") is a responsory sung in the Office of the Dead in the Catholic Church, and at the absolution of the dead, a service of prayers for the dead said beside the coffin immediately after the Requiem Mass and before burial. The text asks God to have mercy upon the deceased person at the Last Judgment.
Both Faure and Durufle wrote a separate movement, "Pie Jesu", for soloist; 3. Both Faure & Durufle "borrow" the "Libera me" and the "In paradisum" texts from the Burial Service (not strictly part of the Requiem Mass); 4. Both Faure's & Durufle's music retain a restrained lyricism, arising from the melodic and rhythmic inspiration (in Faure's ...
Requiem for Bishop Cirilo Almario, in the Mass of Paul VI at Minor Basilica and Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Malolos, Bulacan, 2016 The Requiem, in the Tridentine Mass, celebrated annually for Louis XVI and victims of the French Revolution, in the crypt of Strasbourg Cathedral, 2013 Requiem Mass for Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria at St. Catherine's Cathedral, St. Petersburg ...