Fauré’s Requiem

GABRIEL FAURÉ (1845-1924) 
REQUIEM 

Requiem Mass in D minor, Op. 48 (1893 version).

Gioachino Rossini : « Quelques mesures de chant funèbre à mon pauvre ami Meyerbeer » 
Johannes Brahms : Vier Gesänge, op. 17 
Franz Schubert : Gesang der Geister den Wassern, D. 714 
Josef Rheinberger : Abendlied, op. 69 n°3 
Gabriel Fauré : Cantique de Jean Racine, op. 11

Isaure Brunner · Jean-Gabriel Saint-Martin 

Chœur & Orchestre de l’Opéra Royal 
Victor Jacob, conductor

All the sacred spirit of the Romantic era is embodied in these pages: Gabriel Fauré’s Requiem offers itself without artifi ce, frank and generous. Begun in 1887 and carefully reworked over the years, the work unfolds with a spiritual fervour bathed in a halo of crystalline honesty, carried by a fl uid choral writing. Victor Jacob conducts the Orchestre de l’Opéra Royal in revealing the 1893 version, the fi rst complete edition of this masterpiece. Selected works by Brahms, Schubert, Rossini, and Rheinberger bridge the divine and the secular, transforming this album into a journey steeped in depth and melancholy, where the purity of the score draws the listener’s mind into unsuspected reveries.

Recorded from October 7th to 11th 2024 at the Royal Chapel of the Château de Versailles.

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