About this concert
Gabriel Fauré’s Requiem, Op. 48, written between 1887 and 1890, is the gentlest of the great requiems: Fauré left out most of the fearsome Day of Judgement and ended with “In Paradisum”, a vision of rest rather than terror. The choir performed it under Nayer Nagui at the Basilique in Heliopolis.
Programme
- Work
- Fauré: Requiem
About the music
Gabriel Fauré, Requiem in D minor, Op. 48
- Written between 1887 and 1890, revised through the 1890s and completed in 1900.
- First heard on 16 January 1888 at La Madeleine in Paris, at a funeral; the full orchestral version was first played at the Trocadéro during the 1900 Exposition Universelle.
- Fauré left out the fearsome Dies irae, keeping only its Pie Jesu, and ended with In Paradisum, a text from the burial rite.
- He described it as expressing “a very human feeling of faith in eternal rest”. Seven movements, about 35 minutes.
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