‘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.

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 ...

The Music: Fauré noted that his requiem was ‘composed for nothing... for fun’. The loss of his parents may have conditioned his outlook while creating the score’s first version during 1887-88. But the ...

The Firelands Symphony Chorale, under the direction of Michael Shirtz, will present an uplifting and reflective choral concert featuring Gabriel Fauré’s Requiem alongside a collection of moving ...

Stephen Cleobury led the King’s Choir and Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment through a passionate performance of Fauré, with stellar singing throughout Stephen Cleobury’s Prom with the Choir of ...

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.

Conductors generally like applause, and some are good at milking it. But on Friday evening at Orchestra Hall in Minneapolis, the French-Canadian Bernard Labadie did the opposite: He asked the audience ...

French composer Gabriel Fauré’s Requiem—a far gentler setting of this text than those of Verdi, Mozart, and Berlioz—highlights this program of inspiring and uplifting music. Acclaimed Canadian ...

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In his seven-section Requiem, the French composer Gabriel Fauré distilled some of the most beautiful melodies he ever composed. The creation was almost certainly a musical tribute to his father, who ...

Consolation and communion are this concert's common themes. Conductor Kazuki Yamada leads the SF Symphony and Chorus in Fauré's tenderly radiant and humane Requiem, an underrated stunner. Hailed for ...

Frances Fyfield is in Paris for her latest series celebrating the handwritten scores of famous pieces of classical music. Today it's a choral favourite - Gabriel Faure's Requiem. Show more Gabriel ...