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Jean Catoire

1923 - 2005

France

J. Catoire

Jean Catoire (01/04/1923 - 09/11/2005), a French composer. He was born in Paris of Russian émigré parents whose origins were French and German. Catoire's musical thought is essentially Pythagorean: it is the laying bare of pure musical sound, in which a worldly concern for the language of words and the rhythms of speech are of no consequence. As a 'music of the spheres' it recognises only the resonance and pulse of pure-being perceived in sound.

Author:

Malcolm Bruno

The requiem antiphons

Period:	Modernism
Composed in:	1970
Musical form:	mass
Text/libretto:	Latin mass
Duration:	5'35
Label(s):	Virgin 7243 5 45324 2

Requiem Antiphons, Op. 195 contains:
- Antiphons 1-3 (2:15)
- Antiphons 4-6 (3:20)

Source:

booklet of cd Virgin 7243 5 45324 2

♫ Requiem antiphons nr.1-3
© Virgin 7243 5 45324 2

♫ Requiem antiphons nr.4-6
© Virgin 7243 5 45324 2

The requiem antiphons (6 movements) of 1970 display a music which is pure, exact and impassive ; yet it is a music which remains sensual. Unlike Arvo Part's beautiful but austere and fragile style Catoire's impassivity is immediately and unashamedly appealing. The 'Introit' refrain, which opens and closes the Requiem and recurs frequently throughout, is as beguiling as any moment from the Requiems of Fauré or Duruflé; unlike these, however, it never loses itself in the drama or sentiment of its text.

Author:

Malcolm Bruno

The requiem antiphons (opus 195), for solo voice and bells, are extremely austere, with a slow-moving melody that's haunting and somewhat disorienting. In this company, Hildegard's soaring melodies sound almost luxuriant.

Author:

Matthew Westphal

This recording (Extasia - A Requiem Sequence, Virgin records, 1999) explores musical space and stillness by uniting the spirituality of two millennial ages. It brings together for a first time the extraordinary work of the contemporary French composer, Jean Catoire, and that of the twelfth-century German abbess, Hildegard Von Bingen. They meet on this disc with a requiem by Catoire providing a frame-work for Hildegard's ecstatic 'Antiphons' and 'Responds'. Alongside are plainsong, organ Interludes and meditative 'Requiem Antiphons', all by Catoire, to complete the sequence. Though distinct in voice and style and distanced by over eight hundred years, the creative instincts of Catoire and Hildegard are strangely akin.

Source:

http://membres.lycos.fr/musicalessai/prem.html

Requiem mass

Period:	Modernism
Composed in:	1991
Musical form:	mass
Text/libretto:	Latin mass
Duration:	ca.18'
Label(s):	Virgin Classics CD 7243 5 45324 2 9

This requiem mass (opus 573) is a revision of an early work and for unaccompanied women's voices. Requiem, For Unaccompanied Women's Voices, Op. 537 contains:
01. Introit (4'49)
02. Requiem Aeternam (5:04)
03. Offertorium (3:41)
04. Sanctus (2:22)
05. Agnus Dei (1:51)
06. Lux Aeterna (1:29)
07. Libera Me (2:48)
08. Pater noster (5'43)

Author:	James D'Angelo
Source:	booklet of cd Virgin 7243 5 45324 2

♫ 01. Introit
© Virgin 7243 5 45324 2

♫ 02. Requiem aeternam
© Virgin 7243 5 45324 2

♫ 03. Offertorium
© Virgin 7243 5 45324 2

♫ 04. Sanctus
© Virgin 7243 5 45324 2

♫ 05. Agnus Dei
© Virgin 7243 5 45324 2

♫ 06. Lux Aeterna
© Virgin 7243 5 45324 2

♫ 07. Libera Me
© Virgin 7243 5 45324 2

♫ 08. Pater noster
© Virgin 7243 5 45324 2

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