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Duruflé Complete Choral Works
Robert Simpson

Duruflé Complete Choral Works

Houston Chamber Choir

Label: Signum Classics
Format: CD
Barcode: 0635212057124
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Catalog number: SIGCD 571
Releasedate: 05-04-19
- first American Signum signing 
- produced by GRAMMY Award winning Alspaugh 
- complete choral works of Duruflé

The choral works of Duruflé, like his organ works, are small in number but beautifully crafted. Frequently written and rewritten until he was completely satisfied, he was a composer who rethought and reconfigured his music right up to the moment he had to let go of it. Often described as a man out of step with his times, his pieces look back to Gregorian chant and plainsong at a time when the musical life of his home city of Paris was steeped in radical new compositional ideas – a testament perhaps to Duruflé’s enduring love of France’s choral heritage.

In a new recording produced by Grammy® winning producer Blanton Alspaugh, the Houston Chamber Choir are led by artistic director Robert Simpson on their first release with Signum Records.