Two peaks of that small but beautifully polished oeuvre are his Requiem, which Robert Shaw esteemed highly enough to record alongside Fauré's Requiem, and his organ works, which you might assume cut the deepest into Duruflé's personal creative universe.
"As it is, we have kids that come from home situations that test their self-esteem enough".
At its best, when most longstanding members are on stage and substitutes are few, Orpheus may match the brilliance and vitality of the most venerable and esteemed orchestras, surely achievement enough.
As if that wasn't enough – our esteemed panel of judges will award another nominee £10,000 to help launch their career.
Listening to the great and the good, from President Alassane Ouattara of Côte d'Ivoire to Jean-Claude Trichet, former president of the European Central Bank, my thoughts turned naturally enough in such esteemed company to the rise of China and the prospects of a "G2" with the United States.
Many of the exteriors were shot in Liverpool because of its abundance of Georgian-era architecture - a style venerable enough for an esteemed family in the Victorian era - and various stately homes in northwestern England stood in for Forsyte country houses.
