Requiem

Album by Gabriel Fauré & Chorale des Jeunesses Musicales de France & Orchestre Colonne & Jocelyne Chamonin & Georges Abdoun & Marie‐Claire Alain & Olivier Alain & Louis Martini

Requiem is a choral composition by French composer Gabriel Fauré, completed in 1890. Composed late in Fauré's career, it exemplifies his restrained late-Romantic voice with a consolatory tone, refined harmonic language, prominent choral and solo vocal writing, and modest orchestration that favours strings and woodwind over overtly dramatic effects, offering a more intimate approach to the requiem mass than many contemporaneous settings.
First released: 25th March 1964

Tracklist

  1. 1.
    Requiem: 1. Introït et Kyrie
  2. 2.
    Requiem: 2. Offertoire
  3. 3.
    Requiem: 3. Sanctus
  4. 4.
    Requiem: 4. Pie Jesu
  5. 5.
    Requiem: 5. Agnus Dei
  6. 6.
    Requiem: 6. Libera me
  7. 7.
    Requiem: 7. In paradisum

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