L'amour et la foi : vocal music by Olivier Messiaen

"These Danish performances conducted by Marcus Creed are models of precision and lucidity; every vocal and instrumental strand is there. But it all comes across as rather cool, with neither the Liturgies nor the Rechants generating the sense of abandon and almost delirious ecstasy that the music constantly seems to be striving to express".

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"100 år siden, den franske nationalkomponist i det 20. århundrede blev født. Mærkedagen har givet gode udgivelser hele året, og denne er både blandt de bedste og mest religiøse. Alle tre orkesterværker er en slags meditationer over kristne emner, og det sætter grundstemningen".

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"Hovedværet, der varer godt 35 minutter, er Trois petites liturgies de la Présence divine, tre små liturgiske stykker om Guds tilstedeværelse ... På den nye skive sørger DR's VokalEnsemblet og KoncertKoret, dirigeret af englænderen Marcus Creed, for en overbevisende fremførelse ... [En] temmelig krævende, men også uhyre givende udgivelse".

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"Au total, une des belles réussites de l'année du centenaire".

"The music is truly extraordinary ... This music is also difficult, fiendishly so in the Rechants. It is no small thing, therefore, to say that, in terms of accuracy of pitch, harmony, rhythm and balance, this is the best sung performance on disc of these works, especially the Rechants. Moreover, it is all captured in marvellous surround sound. So why is it ultimately underwhelming? ... There is no such power, intensity or danger here and certainly no sense of ecstatic religious abandon".