We will get to the 19th century, and to the music that transforms me into a merman, but first we must start with zombies. In a funeral program, In Paradisum is for the moment a corpse is transported ...

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. Fauré’s ...

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 interview ...

Louis Lortie carries a torch for Gabriel Fauré’s piano music, and in this CD he makes the best possible advocate for some underrated works. Fauré did not aspire to join the big league of piano ...

In his seven-section Requiem, the French composer Gabriel Fauré distilled some of the most beautiful melodies he ever composed. The creation was almost certainly a musical tribute to his father, who ...