{"id":542,"date":"2011-11-03T09:03:25","date_gmt":"2011-11-03T14:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klassichaus.us\/blog\/?p=542"},"modified":"2011-11-03T10:22:11","modified_gmt":"2011-11-03T15:22:11","slug":"maurice-durufle-requiem-op-9-conducted-by-maurice-durufle-poulenc-mass-in-g-conducted-by-elmer-iseler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/klassichaus.us\/blog\/?p=542","title":{"rendered":"Maurice Durufl\u00e9: Requiem, Op. 9 conducted by Maurice Durufl\u00e9 &#8211; Poulenc: Mass in G conducted by Elmer Iseler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/klassichaus.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/KHCD-2011-086-cover.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-543\" title=\"Durufl\u00e9: Requiem;  Poulenc Mass in G &amp; Two Motets\" src=\"http:\/\/klassichaus.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/KHCD-2011-086-cover.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"569\" height=\"954\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>KHCD-2011-086 (STEREO) &#8211; Maurice Durufl\u00e9: Requiem, for Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra, Op. 9 &#8211; H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Bouvier, mezzo-soprano; Xavier Depraz, bass; Phillipe Caillard Chorale; St\u00e9phane Caillat Chorale;; Marie-Madeleine Durufl\u00e9-Chevalier, organ; Lamoureux Orchestra &#8211; conducted by Maurice Durufl\u00e9; Francis Poulenc &#8211; Mass in G (1937); Motet: Hodie Christus natus est; Motet: Quem vidistis pastores &#8211; The Festival Singers of Toronto conducted by Elmer Iseler &#8211; <\/strong>Durufl\u00e9&#8217;s Requiem is one of the few settings that gently accompanies a loved one to the threshold of eternal rest, without bombast or threat of eternal damnation. Much as Faur\u00e9 in his own Requiem, Durufl\u00e9 uses the heritage of Gregorian plain-song, preserving its color and line. This recording, made in November 1958, has the authority of the composer himself conducting. A mint\u00a0 Erato LP was used in transcription.<\/p>\n<p>The Poulenc works reflect that composer&#8217; s humanistic, vernacular settings of religious texts. The Mass is like no other setting; some of it, such as the Gloria and the two Hosannas, seem more suited for brass and timpani than voices, but the effect proves very well judged. The Motets reflect the same style of the Mass in miniature, perhaps with a bit more lyricism. The Poulenc works are deftly performed by the Toronto Festival Singers, led by its founder, Elmer Iseler, from an early pressing Seraphim LP. <a title=\"Maurice Durufl\u00e9: Requiem &amp; Francis Poulenc: Motet: Hodie Christus natus est samples; \" href=\"http:\/\/klassichaus.us\/media\/KHCD-2011-086-sample.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">Click here for an MP3 sample.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>New titles for November have been posted on <a title=\"Classical LPs and tapes digitally restored and transferred to CD\" href=\"http:\/\/klassichaus.us\" target=\"_blank\">Klassic Haus Restorations<\/a> &#8211; more to come! Cheers &#8211; Curt Timmons<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KHCD-2011-086 (STEREO) &#8211; Maurice Durufl\u00e9: Requiem, for Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra, Op. 9 &#8211; H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Bouvier, mezzo-soprano; Xavier Depraz, bass; Phillipe Caillard Chorale; St\u00e9phane Caillat Chorale;; Marie-Madeleine Durufl\u00e9-Chevalier, organ; Lamoureux Orchestra &#8211; conducted by Maurice Durufl\u00e9; Francis Poulenc &#8211; Mass in G (1937); Motet: Hodie Christus natus est; Motet: Quem vidistis pastores &#8211; The Festival [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/klassichaus.us\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/klassichaus.us\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/klassichaus.us\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/klassichaus.us\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/klassichaus.us\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=542"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/klassichaus.us\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":547,"href":"http:\/\/klassichaus.us\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542\/revisions\/547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/klassichaus.us\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/klassichaus.us\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/klassichaus.us\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}