A requiem was needed for an architect's funeral at the Madeleine; Fauré despised most of the sentimental operatic music the church offered its fashionable congregations.

It is Gabriel Fauré's In Paradisum ("Into Paradise"), the last work in his masterpiece Requiem —Latin songs from the Catholic Mass for the Dead.

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 ...

"In paradisum," the last movement of the Requiem, pulls one line over for 30 measures, but it feels seamless.

Louis Lortie In Paradisum – A Fauré Recital Chandos, out now Gabriel Fauré wrote some toothsome melodies in stuff such as his Requiem, or the Cantique De Jean Racine, and the delicious Pavane ...

‘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 ...

Faure eliminated all passages of the Mass for the Dead that speak of fear, horror and punishment. He added the seldom-set In Paradisum in a calm mood, transfigured, heavenly, as only a few ...

Gabriel Faure's Requiem, however, would rival anything in its luminous, velvety beauty, heartfelt profundity in the pulsing swells of its Sanctus, and, above all, in the sheer weightless ...

And while he does address the Last Judgment, he urges his thoughts to a glorious afterlife, "In Paradisum." Steven Mosteller, music director of Opera New Jersey and a frequent New York City Opera ...

The Falmouth Chorale, led by Artistic Director John Yankee, presents In Paradisum, a heavenly selection of choral works from 19th and 20th century composers, on Saturday, March 10, 4 pm, and ...

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 ...