℗ 2014 Hyperion Records Limited
Released | November 24, 2023 |
Originated | September 28, 2014 |
Duration | 1h 14m 57s |
Record Label | Hyperion |
Genre | Classical |
Music for Remembrance: Duruflé Requiem & Other Works
James O'Donnell, The Choir of Westminster Abbey
Available in 88.2 kHz / 24-bit AIFF, FLAC high resolution audio formats
Requiem, Op. 9
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1.1
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I. Introit
Maurice Duruflé; Anonymous; The Choir of Westminster Abbey; Britten Sinfonia; Robert Quinney; James O'Donnell |
3:27 | |||
1.2
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II. Kyrie
Maurice Duruflé; Anonymous; The Choir of Westminster Abbey; Britten Sinfonia; James O'Donnell; Robert Quinney |
3:28 | |||
1.3
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III. Domine Jesu Christe
Maurice Duruflé; Anonymous; Roderick Williams; Robert Quinney; James O'Donnell; The Choir of Westminster Abbey; Britten Sinfonia |
8:00 | |||
1.4
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IV. Sanctus
Maurice Duruflé; Anonymous; Robert Quinney; James O'Donnell; Britten Sinfonia; The Choir of Westminster Abbey |
3:17 | |||
1.5
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V. Pie Jesu
Maurice Duruflé; Anonymous; Christine Rice; Caroline Dearnley; Robert Quinney; James O'Donnell; Britten Sinfonia |
3:31 | |||
1.6
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VI. Agnus Dei
Maurice Duruflé; Anonymous; Robert Quinney; James O'Donnell; Britten Sinfonia; The Choir of Westminster Abbey |
3:41 | |||
1.7
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VII. Lux aeterna
Maurice Duruflé; Anonymous; James O'Donnell; Britten Sinfonia; The Choir of Westminster Abbey; Robert Quinney |
4:01 | |||
1.8
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VIII. Libera me
Maurice Duruflé; Anonymous; James O'Donnell; Britten Sinfonia; Roderick Williams; Robert Quinney; The Choir of Westminster Abbey |
5:23 | |||
1.9
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IX. In paradisum
Maurice Duruflé; Anonymous; James O'Donnell; Britten Sinfonia; Robert Quinney; The Choir of Westminster Abbey |
3:05 | |||
1.10
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Lord, Thou Hast Been Our Refuge (Psalm 90)
Ralph Vaughan Williams; Anonymous; The Choir of Westminster Abbey; James O'Donnell |
8:19 | |||
1.11
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3 Prayers of I. Morning Prayers
Philip Moore; Dietrich Bonhoeffer; The Choir of Westminster Abbey; James O'Donnell |
6:25 | |||
1.12
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3 Prayers of II. Prayers in the Time of Distress
Philip Moore; Dietrich Bonhoeffer; James O'Donnell; William Balkwill; The Choir of Westminster Abbey |
4:03 | |||
1.13
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3 Prayers of III. Evening Prayers
Philip Moore; Dietrich Bonhoeffer; James O'Donnell; The Choir of Westminster Abbey |
4:43 | |||
1.14
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Take Him, Earth, for Cherishing
Herbert Howells; Aurelius Prudentius Clemens; The Choir of Westminster Abbey; James O'Donnell |
8:28 | |||
1.15
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The Peace That Surpasseth Understanding
John Tavener; Anonymous; James O'Donnell; The Choir of Westminster Abbey |
5:06 | |||
Digital Booklet
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"This disc offers a stimulating programme, beautifully performed and very well recorded. The choir is on excellent form and the soloists drawn from its ranks also deserve separate commendation, helping to make this a fine contribution to this year’s remembrance observations."
- International Record Review
This latest album from Westminster Abbey is a programme of memorial music composed in England and France in the shadow of two World Wars.
The main feature is Duruflé’s Requiem, one of the best-loved of all works of the twentieth century, and given an astoundingly beautiful performance here, enhanced by distinguished soloists Christine Rice and Roderick Williams. The Requiem is many ways a paradoxical work, based on plainsong but with Durufle’s sensuous harmonies suffusing every note with feeling: ‘This Requiem is not an ethereal work which sings of detachment from human concerns’, he said. ‘It reflects, in the unchanging form of Christian prayer, the anguish of man faced with the mystery of his final end.’ It is a work of unimpeachable integrity, a miraculous synthesis of the old and the new.
Throughout the past century the Abbey has been a focus of national remembrance on Armistice Day, and ‘O God, our help in ages past’—the ‘great ceremonial hymn of the English nation’, quoted in Vaughan Williams’ Lord, thou has been our refuge—has been a constant and reassuring presence, from the Burial Service of the Unknown Warrior on 11 November 1920 to the Service commemorating the Passing of the World War One Generation on 11 November 2009. The anthem by John Tavener recorded here was composed for that service, and all the other English music has some special significance in this place: a statue of Dietrich Bonhoeffer stands above the west door of Westminster Abbey (one of the ten twentieth-century Christian martyrs installed in the niches there in 1998), while the ashes of Herbert Howells and Ralph Vaughan Williams are buried in the church where their music has contributed so much to daily services and great state occasions.
88.2 kHz / 24-bit PCM – Hyperion Studio Masters
Track title | Peak (dB FS) | RMS (dB FS) | LUFS (integrated) | DR | |
Album average Range of values | -4.53 -10.93 to -0.36 | -27.15 -33.23 to -21.63 | -23.12 -30.10 to -18.00 | 13 10 to 15 | |
1 | I. Introit | -4.60 | -26.91 | -23.8 | 13 |
2 | II. Kyrie | -1.53 | -22.85 | -18.8 | 12 |
3 | III. Domine Jesu Christe | -0.36 | -25.63 | -20.0 | 15 |
4 | IV. Sanctus | -0.47 | -25.80 | -21.8 | 14 |
5 | V. Pie Jesu | -7.66 | -28.15 | -24.2 | 11 |
6 | VI. Agnus Dei | -7.98 | -29.62 | -27.0 | 14 |
7 | VII. Lux aeterna | -10.69 | -32.69 | -30.1 | 13 |
8 | VIII. Libera me | -1.38 | -24.30 | -20.8 | 14 |
9 | IX. In paradisum | -8.13 | -27.98 | -26.1 | 10 |
10 | Lord, Thou Hast Been Our Refuge (Psalm 90) | -3.24 | -26.28 | -22.0 | 14 |
11 | 3 Prayers of I. Morning Prayers | -1.73 | -26.59 | -20.7 | 15 |
12 | 3 Prayers of II. Prayers in the Time of Distress | -3.96 | -27.47 | -20.9 | 14 |
13 | 3 Prayers of III. Evening Prayers | -10.93 | -33.23 | -29.6 | 13 |
14 | Take Him, Earth, for Cherishing | -4.14 | -28.10 | -23.0 | 15 |
15 | The Peace That Surpasseth Understanding | -1.10 | -21.63 | -18.0 | 11 |