About this concert
Gabriel Fauré’s Requiem, Op. 48, the gentlest of the great requiems, ending not in judgement but in “In Paradisum”, paired with a selection of American songs. Conducted by Jennifer Howard Gotten with the soprano Dina Iskander and the bass-baritone Burak Bilgili, at St. Rita Church in the Maronite Patriarchate, Heliopolis. Admission was free with registration, and the evening was sold out.
Programme
- Work
- Fauré, Requiem in D minor
- Work
- A selection of American songs
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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