Fauré: Requiem and other sacred music

Description

John Rutter’s Gramophone Award-winning 1984 recording of Fauré’s Requiem, re-released in 2010. The first-ever performance on disc of the work in its intimate original version – famously re-discovered by Rutter in the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris after a century of neglect – it remains one of the timeless jewels in the crown of the Collegium catalogue.

Hailed on release as ‘the Fauré Requiem of the future’ (Music Week), Rutter’s performance with the Cambridge Singers and members of the City of London Sinfonia has transformed the way in which we view one of the great works of European sacred music, and remains definitive.

An audio learning guide for Cantique de Jean Racine is available from ChoirGuides

Track list

1. Requiem: Introït et Kyrie
2. Requiem: Offertoire
3. Requiem: Sanctus
4. Requiem: Pie Jesu
5. Requiem: Agnus Dei
6. Requiem: Libera me
7. Requiem: In paradisum
8. Ave verum Corpus
9. Tantum ergo
10. Ave Maria
11. Maria, Mater gratiae
12. Cantique de Jean Racine
13. Messe Basse: Kyrie eleison
14. Messe Basse: Sanctus
15. Messe Basse: Benedictus
16. Messe Basse: Agnus Dei