The Chorus of Opera North: Duruflé – Requiem

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The Chorus of Opera North is joined by Assistant Director of Music at York Minster, Benjamin Morris, at the organ for Maurice Duruflé’s 1947 setting of the Requiem Mass.

‘Although the music swims in a luxuriant harmonic bath that combines elements of Debussy, Fauré, and Messiaen, all of its melodies, according to the composer, are “based exclusively on themes from the Gregorian funeral mass”’.

– Russell Platt, The New Yorker