Requiem / Four Motets

Album by Maurice Duruflé & Corydon Singers & English Chamber Orchestra & Matthew Best

Requiem and the Four Motets are choral works by French composer Maurice Duruflé, composed in 1947 and around 1960 respectively. Both pieces draw heavily on Gregorian chant, combining chant-derived melodies with modal and impressionistic harmonies, typically scored for choir with organ or subtle orchestral colouring, and they represent Duruflé's mature synthesis of liturgical tradition and mid-20th-century French harmonic language in his choral output.

Requiem / Four Motets by Duruflé - album cover

First released: February 1987

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1.
Requiem, op. 9 (third version): I. Introit
3:50
2.
Requiem, op. 9 (third version): II. Kyrie
3:57
3.
Requiem, op. 9 (third version): III. Domine Jesu
9:08
4.
Requiem, op. 9 (third version): IV. Sanctus
3:24
5.
Requiem, op. 9 (third version): V. Pie Jesu
3:58
6.
Requiem, op. 9 (third version): VI. Agnus Dei
3:51
7.
Requiem, op. 9 (third version): VII. Lux aeterna
4:04
8.
Requiem, op. 9 (third version): VIII. Libera me
6:00
9.
Requiem, op. 9 (third version): IX. In Paradisum
3:14
10.
Quatre motets sur des themes gregoriens, op. 10: I. Ubi caritas et amor
2:45
11.
Quatre motets sur des themes gregoriens, op. 10: II. Tota pulchra es
2:13
12.
Quatre motets sur des themes gregoriens, op. 10: III. Tu es Petrus
0:58
13.
Quatre motets sur des themes gregoriens, op. 10: IV. Tantum ergo
3:06