Fauré: Requiem / Christophers, St. Martin In The Fields, The Sixteen

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Label
Coro
Release Date
March 1, 2008
Format
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      FAURE MOZART
    • PERFORMER
      Requiem
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      March 01, 2008
    • UPC
      828021605727
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      COR16057
    • LABEL
      Coro
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Choral - Sacred
    Works ⌄

    1. Ave verum corpus in D Major, K. 618

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: The Sixteen Choir, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    2. Dixit Dominus

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: The Sixteen Choir, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields

      Performer: Elin Manahan Thomas, Ruth Massey, Mark Dobell

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    3. Confitebor

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: The Sixteen Choir, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields

      Performer: Elin Manahan Thomas, Ruth Massey, Mark Dobell

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    4. Beatus vir

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: The Sixteen Choir, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields

      Performer: Elin Manahan Thomas, Ruth Massey, Mark Dobell

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    5. Laudate pueri

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: The Sixteen Choir, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    6. Laudate Dominum

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: The Sixteen Choir, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields

      Performer: Elin Manahan Thomas

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    7. Magnificat

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: The Sixteen Choir, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields

      Performer: Elin Manahan Thomas, Ruth Massey, Mark Dobell

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    8. Introit - Kyrie

      Composer: Gabriel Fauré

      Ensemble: The Sixteen Choir, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    9. Offertory

      Composer: Gabriel Fauré

      Ensemble: The Sixteen Choir, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields

      Performer: Roderick Williams

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    10. Sanctus

      Composer: Gabriel Fauré

      Ensemble: The Sixteen Choir, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    11. Pie Jesu

      Composer: Gabriel Fauré

      Ensemble: Academy of St. Martin in the Fields

      Performer: Elin Manahan Thomas

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    12. Agnus Dei

      Composer: Gabriel Fauré

      Ensemble: The Sixteen Choir, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    13. Libera me

      Composer: Gabriel Fauré

      Ensemble: The Sixteen Choir, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields

      Performer: Roderick Williams

      Conductor: Harry Christophers

    14. In paradisum

      Composer: Gabriel Fauré

      Ensemble: The Sixteen Choir, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields

      Conductor: Harry Christophers


The result of a brand new collaboration between two of the finest modern day exponents of classical music, this exquisite disc brings fresh lifeblood to Fauré's peerless 'Requiem' and injects imaginative invention and poetic phrasing into two of Mozart's choral masterpieces. Recorded at the 2007 Mostly Mozart Festival at London's Barbican Hall, this disc reflects the unique live experience of a concert performance that captivated its audience. Conducted by Harry Christophers, The Sixteen and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields are joined by four soloists for this recording. '...the singers of The Sixteen evoked an unearthly expressiveness. Fauré once said: 'here it was as if we had stumbled upon some private memorial, and caught a haunting glimpse of paradise.'' - The London Independent

R E V I E W S:

"This is a live recording of a concert given at last year’s Mostly Mozart festival...Despite its title, Mozart’s pithy Solemn Vespers mostly bristle with a joyous, late-Haydn-like energy, though the lilting Laudate dominum is an expressive high point within the psalm sequence. The solemnity comes with Fauré’s Requiem and the curtain-raiser, Mozart’s late motet Ave verum corpus, which are expressive and both emotionally and spiritually profound. Harry Christophers, the Sixteen and the Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields straddle the styles and approaches impressively. Roderick Williams is an excellent, rich-toned baritone soloist, while Ruth Massey conveys just the right measure of fragility in her Pie Jesu."
-- Stephen Pettitt, Sunday Times (London) [3/9/2008]