| An excellent choir (review from amazon.com) |
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| This just blows your mind: an excellent and musical choir, clear and effortless pronunciation, beautiful requiem, organist makes your day, CD itself has perfect sound, level is a bit low but the organ pedals can be heard with some volume adjusting. :-) Go buy one immediately, this is just perfect
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| a magnificent rendition (review from amazon.com) |
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| wow. i'm amazed how i'm only the second person to review this album. there are a million versions of this faure's requems, yet this album stands out more than any others. the reason was stated by the reviewer before me: the swedish radio choir obeys the composers' wishes for performances in the churches, without orchestra, and with only organ accompaniment for the chorus and soloists. it is amazing to hear these beautiful requiems as they were meant to be played... in a cathedral. the sound is rich and alive. you can really feel the weight of the sounds as they reverberate perfectly throughout it. this variation is in my opinion, more ethereal than other variations i've heard. if you want to hear these requiems like you've never heard them before, then pick this album up... NOW!
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| A More Intimate Yet Gently Uplifting Performances of Two Favorite Requiems (review from amazon.com) |
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There are so many recordings of the Requiems by Maurice Duruflé and Gabriel Fauré that seeing a new recording released seems excessive. But the reason this recording of these quietly spiritual works deserves attention is that it obeys the composers' wishes for performances in the churches, without orchestra, and with only organ accompaniment for the chorus and soloists. The sound is different but to this listener (and with the forces assembled for this recording) the result is well worth the effort.
Fredrick Malmberg conducts the Swedish Radio Choir (Sveriges Radiokor), organist Mattias Wager, and soloists Malena Ernman, Olle Persson, Ola Hċkansson, and Miah Persson in beautifully crafted, exquisitely sung and sensitively rendered devotional moods. The soloists are all outstanding, especially the women, and there are few performances of the Fauré 'Pie Jesu' that can match the ethereal beauty of Miah Persson's hauntingly beautiful rendering. The balance between the organ, the chorus and the soloists is perfect and the engineer who created this CD deserve awards for the quality of sound: the presence of hearing the works in a cathedral is captured as well as any recording on the market! Highly Recommended on every level. Grady Harp, October 06
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