Requiem / Cantique de Jean Racine

Album by Gabriel Fauré & City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra & City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Chorus & Louis Frémaux & Norma Burrowes & Brian Rayner Cook

Requiem and Cantique de Jean Racine are choral works by Gabriel Fauré, composed in 1887–1890 and 1865 respectively. They showcase Fauré's lyrical, modal-influenced harmonic language and a tranquil, consolatory approach to sacred music, combining intimate choral textures with chamber-like orchestration and representing key stages in his compositional development.

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  1. 1.
    Requiem, op. 48: I. Introit and Kyrie
  2. 2.
    Requiem, op. 48: II. Offertory
  3. 3.
    Requiem, op. 48: III. Sanctus
  4. 4.
    Requiem, op. 48: IV. Pie Jesu
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    Requiem, op. 48: V. Agnus Dei
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    Requiem, op. 48: VI. Libera me
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    Requiem, op. 48: VII. In paradisum
  8. 8.
    Cantique de Jean Racine, op. 11

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