Duruflé: Requiem / Respighi: Gregorian Concerto

Ivan Repušič, the new chief conductor of the Munich Radio Orchestra, dedicates his first album for BR KLASSIK to works by the composers Maurice Duruflé and Ottorino Respighi. Both draw heavily on the melodies and harmonies of Gregorian chant. The French composer Duruflé's Requiem is based on the Gregorian Missa pro defunctis, the Latin Mass for the Dead. And the Italian composer Respighi used medieval choral music as inspiration for the harmonic texture of his Concerto gregoriano and the lyrical character of the violin solo part.