MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Faure/Durufle: Requiems

"It makes an apt and generous coupling to have the Faure Requiem alongside the closely related Durufle work. Though soloists appear in only six out of 16 movements in all, having star singers certainly adds to the attractions, when both Cecilia Bartoli and Bryn Terfel sing with fervour, bringing out the word-meaning dramatically to defy any idea that these are just sweetly reflective pieces. That is particularly true of the Durufle performance, where in the third movement, 'Domine Jesu Christe', and again in the 'Dies illa' section of the 'Libera me', Terfel finds an element of violence, apt for the words, matched by the urgency, wildness even, of Chung's conducting at such points." Gramophone