‘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 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 ...

Ozawa’s Faure Requiem is a safe middle-of-the-road interpretation, one that honors the devotional spirit of this kindest and gentlest of the great settings of the Latin mass for the dead. The original ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The choral work will be presented on Good Friday at the Cathedral Church of Saint Matthew, 5100 Ross Ave., Dallas. It's at 7:30 p.m., it's free, and it will include soloists and organ accompaniment.