 | from Duruflé: Requiem; Poulenc: Lenten Motets (CDA68436) 1 Introït – [3'42] 42 minutes 21 seconds 9 tracks2 Kyrie [3'55] 3 Domine Jesu Christe [9'33] 4 Sanctus [3'12] 5 Pie Jesu [3'47] 6 Agnus Dei [3'56] 7 Lux aeterna [4'26] 8 Libera me [6'10] 9 In paradisum [3'40] ‘The overall effect is sublime. Moving seamlessly into the 'Kyrie', the various ‘gear changes’ are impeccably negotiated, building to a luminous, rounded climax. Dramatic and dynamic contrasts and per ... ‘The balance [in the Duruflé] puts you in the building in the most extraordinary way … that wonderful envelope of sound that just surrounds you as you listen to it. A shout-out for Harrison Cole— ... ‘The Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge, dials up the plushness with the 1948 version [of the Duruflé] for organ, and the instrument at Saint-Eustache in Paris is so sonorous and pillowy as to render ... |