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Article: Double Play: In sure and certain hope
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- July 23, 1994
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FAURE: Requiem; plus part-songs by Faure, Saint-Saens, Ravel,
Debussy
Bott, Cachemaille, Monteverdi Choir, Orchestre Revolutionnaire
et Romantique / John Eliot Gardiner (Philips 438 149-2)
HEAR THIS, and there's no going back. Faure's original scoring
is so much more than a matter of instrumental colour and cast: it's
integral to the whole emotional tone of his Requiem; it's that
which makes it unique. No one need fear to walk through his valley
of the shadow of death: divided violas and cellos cast a subdued
but reassuring light (gut strings help, of course), a pair of horns
and a single violin are the still, small voices of faith in this
"lullaby of death". The whole texture seems to float ...