Durufle: Complete Choral Works / Simpson, Cowan, Houston Chamber Choir

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Label
Signum Classics
Release Date
April 19, 2019
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      DURUFLE, MAURICE
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Houston Chamber Choir
    • PERFORMER
      Cowan, Simpson
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      April 19, 2019
    • UPC
      635212057124
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      SIGCD571
    • LABEL
      Signum Classics
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Kyrie

      Composer: Maurice Duruflé

      Ensemble: Houston Chamber Choir

      Performer: Ken Cowan

      Conductor: Robert Simpson

    2. Gloria

      Composer: Maurice Duruflé

      Ensemble: Houston Chamber Choir

      Performer: Eduardo Tercero, Ken Cowan

      Conductor: Robert Simpson

    3. Sanctus

      Composer: Maurice Duruflé

      Ensemble: Houston Chamber Choir

      Performer: Ken Cowan

      Conductor: Robert Simpson

    4. Benedictus

      Composer: Maurice Duruflé

      Ensemble: Houston Chamber Choir

      Performer: Eduardo Tercero, Ken Cowan

      Conductor: Robert Simpson

    5. Agnus Dei

      Composer: Maurice Duruflé

      Ensemble: Houston Chamber Choir

      Performer: Ken Cowan

      Conductor: Robert Simpson

    6. No. 1. Ubi caritas

      Composer: Maurice Duruflé

      Ensemble: Houston Chamber Choir

      Conductor: Robert Simpson

    7. No. 2. Tota pulchra es

      Composer: Maurice Duruflé

      Ensemble: Houston Chamber Choir

      Conductor: Robert Simpson

    8. No. 3. Tu es Petrus

      Composer: Maurice Duruflé

      Ensemble: Houston Chamber Choir

      Conductor: Robert Simpson

    9. No. 4. Tantum ergo

      Composer: Maurice Duruflé

      Ensemble: Houston Chamber Choir

      Conductor: Robert Simpson

    10. Notre Père, Op. 14

      Composer: Maurice Duruflé

      Ensemble: Houston Chamber Choir

      Conductor: Robert Simpson

    11. Introit

      Composer: Maurice Duruflé

      Ensemble: Houston Chamber Choir

      Performer: Ken Cowan

      Conductor: Robert Simpson

    12. Kyrie

      Composer: Maurice Duruflé

      Ensemble: Houston Chamber Choir

      Performer: Ken Cowan

      Conductor: Robert Simpson

    13. Domine Jesu Christe

      Composer: Maurice Duruflé

      Ensemble: Houston Chamber Choir

      Performer: Ken Cowan

      Conductor: Robert Simpson

    14. Sanctus

      Composer: Maurice Duruflé

      Ensemble: Houston Chamber Choir

      Performer: Ken Cowan

      Conductor: Robert Simpson

    15. Pie Jesu

      Composer: Maurice Duruflé

      Ensemble: Houston Chamber Choir

      Performer: Cecilia Duarte, Norman Fischer, Ken Cowan

      Conductor: Robert Simpson

    16. Agnus Dei

      Composer: Maurice Duruflé

      Ensemble: Houston Chamber Choir

      Performer: Ken Cowan

      Conductor: Robert Simpson

    17. Lux aeterna

      Composer: Maurice Duruflé

      Ensemble: Houston Chamber Choir

      Performer: Ken Cowan

      Conductor: Robert Simpson

    18. Libera me

      Composer: Maurice Duruflé

      Ensemble: Houston Chamber Choir

      Performer: Ken Cowan

      Conductor: Robert Simpson

    19. In paradisum

      Composer: Maurice Duruflé

      Ensemble: Houston Chamber Choir

      Performer: Ken Cowan

      Conductor: Robert Simpson


The choral works of Duruflé, like his organ works, are small in number but beautifully crafted. Frequently written and rewritten until he was completely satisfied, he was a composer who rethought and re-configured his music right up to the moment he had to let go of it. Often described as a man out of step with his times, his pieces look back to Gregorian chant and plainsong at a time when the musical life of his home city of Paris was steeped in radical new compositional ideas – a testament perhaps to Duruflé’s enduring love of France’s choral heritage. In a new recording produced by Grammy® winning producer Blanton Alspaugh, the Houston Chamber Choir are led by artistic director Robert Simpson on their first release with Signum Records.

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REVIEWS:

Recorded in warm, though not too reverberant acoustics, the choir’s tone is open and bright, and they and their conductor are sensitive to Duruflé’s demands. While they can be dramatic when needed, nothing is ever overstated – a temptation in this work, where there is little variety in tempi. The four unaccompanied Gregorian motets show offthe choir’s strengths to their best advantage.

– Choir & Organ

The unique selling point here is the highly polished, virtually flawless sound of the Houston Chamber Choir. Here is a group that clearly enjoys the art of choral singing and in Robert Simpson they have a director whose focus on producing a superbly homogenous sound makes for warm, comfortable listening.

– Gramophone