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Francesco Durante: Requiem
Katy Hill, Mark Dobell, Clive Driskill-Smith
Francesco Durante: Requiem
Genres: Opera & Classical Vocal, Classical
 
In an exciting new collaboration, Oxfords Christ Church Cathedral Choir, one of the worlds oldest and best-known cathedral choirs, joins forces with soloists from The Sixteen and Oxford Baroque on this new recording of Fra...  more »

     
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All Artists: Katy Hill, Mark Dobell, Clive Driskill-Smith, Alexandra Kidgell, William Purefoy, Ben Davies
Title: Francesco Durante: Requiem
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Label: Naxos of America, Inc.
Release Date: 11/11/2016
Album Type: Import
Genres: Opera & Classical Vocal, Classical
Style: Symphonies
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 828021614729

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In an exciting new collaboration, Oxfords Christ Church Cathedral Choir, one of the worlds oldest and best-known cathedral choirs, joins forces with soloists from The Sixteen and Oxford Baroque on this new recording of Francesco Durantes Requiem Mass in C minor. Despite its enduring popularity in the 18th century this beautiful and majestic work was never published but survives through over 50 manuscript copies scattered across Europe. It is a remarkable work which can justly be described as one of the most important orchestral Requiem settings of the 18th century. This is the premiere recording of Stephen Darlingtons new edition of the work which shows durante to be a composer of considerable skill and invention, who combined his mastery of counterpoint with an elegance of melody, a richness of harmony and an imaginative instinct for structure. This album also features Durantes exquisite Organ Concerto in B flat major- a rare example of an Italian keyboard concerto of the period- performed by celebrated organist Clive Driskill-Smith. Although 500 years old, Christ Church Cathedral Choir is justly famous for the youthfulness of its sound and its daring and adventurous musical programming. Unique in the world as both Cathedral and college choir, the intimate acoustic of its musical home, Oxfords 12th century Cathedral has given it a relationship with early sacred music and the rhythm and vigor of contemporary idioms which is second to none.