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 ...

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 ...

We will get to the 19th century, and to the music that transforms me into a merman, but first we must start with zombies. In a funeral program, In Paradisum is for the moment a corpse is transported ...

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 ...

Pour célébrer ses dix ans d’existence, In Paradisum propose une soirée de chants lyriques et d’opéra sous l’intitulé, Libiamo ...

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 ...

Requiems continue to be sung in the wake of September's terrorist attacks. Wednesday night the Washington Chorus added a luminous performance of Faure's Requiem to the list. The memorial concert, held ...