Fauré, Gabriel: Requiem d-Moll op. 48

What distinguishes Fauré’s Requiem from numerous other settings of the requiem text is its rather intimate, restrained, almost chamber-music nature, a ‘lullaby of death’ as it has also been called, an implied criticism of how the work avoids the depiction of the dread of death and the Last Judgement. Fauré's reply was “But this is how I feel about death: as a happy liberation, as a striving for happiness in the hereafter rather than as a painful transition”, which not only perfectly describes essential characteristics of his Requiem, but also reveals it to be a very personal expression of the composer’s own artistic nature.

This single is  part of the CD "GABRIEL FAURÉ: Requiem / FRANCIS POULENC: Gloria" (SWR19166CD), Release: Jan. 2026