‘The human soul dreams of being cradled like a child’ — Fauré’s Requiem offers a radiant and tender vision of heaven, comforting audiences far beyond the composer’s original Parisian congregation.

Mosteller stresses the intimacy of the work, which will be evident when the work is performed in its original chamber version, instead of the orchestral arrangement commonly heard -- and believed to ...

Gabriel Fauré's Requiem, Op. 48 opens with an unsmiling D spread out in octaves across the orchestra. Grave and unquestioning, it doesn't ask for your attention - it just takes it. But the composition ...

Faure: Requiem, Op. 48; ”Cantique de Jean Racine,” Op. 11; ”Masques et Bergamasques,” Op. 12 (Soloists, Orchestre National de Lyon and Chorus, Emmanuel Krivine, conductor; Denon). Krivine and his ...

Different from the standard Requiem format, Gabriel Fauré’s work contains no Dies irae, and adds two prayers from the burial office: the "Libera me" and "In Paradisum." Fauré noted in an interview ...

Gabriel Faure`s uniquely conceived Requiem–a late 19th Century work that strives for and achieves a pre-Renaissance spiritual respose–demands a similarly unique performance. While there is no room for ...

Choral conductor David Willcocks and others reflect on the inspirational impact of Gabriel Fauré's Requiem. From September 2010. Show more "He wanted it to be something that's consoling and helpful.

Tonight BBC4's Sacred Music series turns to France, and two vital figures of the late 19th and early 20th centuries: Gabriel Fauré and Francis Poulenc. Of all the sacred works of its time, none is ...