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Composer of the Week: Faure

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Richard Langham Smith introduces some of Faure's church music and talks to the French musicologist
Jean-Michel Nectoux , who rediscovered Faure's original orchestration of the famous Requiem.
3: Faure at the Madeleine Tantum Ergo Ave Verum
Audite Nova Vocal
Ensemble of Paris
Marie-Claire Alain (organ) director Jean Sourisse
Requiem
La Chapelle Royale
Les Petits Chanteurs de
Saint-Louis
Agnes Mellon (soprano) Peter Kooy (baritone)
Ensemble Musique Oblique conductor Philippe Herreweghe. Discs

Contributors

Introduces:
Richard Langham Smith
Musicologist:
Jean-Michel Nectoux
Unknown:
Madeleine Tantum
Baritone:
Peter Kooy
Conductor:
Philippe Herreweghe.
Source: Radio Times

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