Composer: Claude Achille Debussy, Maurice Duruflé
Performer: Magdalena Kožená, Rundfunkchor Berlin
Orchestra: Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin
Conductor: Robin Ticciati
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Linn
Catalogue: CKD623
Release: 2019
Size: 1.03 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Debussy: Trois Nocturnes
01. I. Nuages
02. II. Fêtes
03. III. Sirènes
Duruflé: Requiem, Op. 9
04. I. Introït. Requiem aeternam
05. II. Kyrie
06. III. Domine Jesu Christe
07. IV. Sanctus
08. V. Pie Jesu
09. VI. Agnus Dei
10. VII. Lux aeterna
11. VIII. Libera me
12. IX. In paradisum
Released to coincide with his third season as Music Director of the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Robin Ticciati has forged a close and highly successful partnership with his orchestra.
This, his fourth recording with DSO Berlin, continues his series of music by French composers (Debussy, Fauré, Ravel, Duparc) with a significant move into choral music: the Duruflé Requiem.
Ticciati is joined by mezzo-soprano Magdalena Kožená, who has performed Debussy’s Ariettes oubliées and Duparc songs on previous DSO recordings, and the Grammy award-winning Rundfunkchor Berlin.
Written in response to Fauré’s own Requiem and with Debussy’s influence paramount, Duruflé created one of the most significant sacred works of the twentieth century.
Ticciati describes this masterpiece as “a balm for the soul, a score filled with tremendous hope and peaceful searching”.
Most typically recorded with organ accompaniment, Ticciati has chosen to record Duruflé’s own orchestrated version which allows the conductor to create a unique blend of choral and orchestral colours recalling the sound-world of Debussy and the Impressionists.
Fittingly the programme also includes Debussy’s Nocturnes, a welcome addition following the critically-acclaimed reception of Ticciati’s recording of La mer.