Various - Music for Remembrance - Choir of Westminster Abbey, The

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This latest album from Westminster Abbey is a programme of memorial music composed in England and France in the shadow of two World Wars.The main feature is Duruflé's Requiem, one of the best-loved of all works of the twentieth century, and given an astoundingly beautiful performance here, enhanced by distinguished soloists Christine Rice and Roderick Williams. The Requiem is many ways a paradoxical work, based on plainsong but with Durufle's sensuous harmonies suffusing every note with feeling: 'This Requiem is not an ethereal work which sings of detachment from human concerns', he said. 'It reflects, in the unchanging form of Christian prayer, the anguish of man faced with the mystery of his final end.' It is a work of unimpeachable integrity, a miraculous synthesis of the old and the new.