Duruflé: Requiem; Poulenc: Lenten Motets

Source: as reproduced by The Choir of Trinity College Cambridge, The New York Times (Best Classical Music Albums of 2024).

“Everything about this recording is intoxicating: the Choir of Trinity College’s dreamy sound; the setting’s enveloping church acoustic; the weightlessness of the organ-only version of Duruflé’s beloved Requiem. The conductor Stephen Layton achieves heavenly swells that push the choir’s plushness to ever greater volumes, and Harrison Cole’s organ playing floats by, untethered by earthly matters.”