from Duruflé: Requiem; Poulenc: Lenten Motets (CDA68436) 1 Timor et tremor [2'49] 13 minutes 36 seconds 4 tracks2 Vinea mea electa [3'45] 3 Tenebrae factae sunt [4'00] 4 Tristis est anima mea [3'02] ‘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 ... |