On Sunday, 27 October 2013, those of us who are willing and able will join others to present a concert performance of Gabriel Fauré's beautiful Requiem mass, under the direction of Vivian Rentowski in Desoto, Texas.
Fauré spent years composing and revising his Requiem and said of the work, "Everything I managed to entertain by way
of religious illusion I put into my Requiem, which moreover is
dominated from beginning to end by a very human feeling of faith in
eternal rest." He told an interviewer, "It has been said that my Requiem does not express the fear of death and someone has called it a lullaby of death. But it is thus that I see death: as a happy deliverance, an
aspiration towards happiness above, rather than as a painful experience." Certainly, this Requiem is a joy to sing.
Here is a lovely performance of the Requiem by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, under the direction of Piérre Boulanger.
To help everyone get up to speed on their parts, I've compiled separate YouTube playlists of practice files for each voice: soprano, alto, tenor, and bass. On movements where the tenor and bass voices split, both upper and lower parts are included in the playlist.
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| Gabriel Fauré, 1907 |
Here is a lovely performance of the Requiem by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, under the direction of Piérre Boulanger.
To help everyone get up to speed on their parts, I've compiled separate YouTube playlists of practice files for each voice: soprano, alto, tenor, and bass. On movements where the tenor and bass voices split, both upper and lower parts are included in the playlist.
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