Paavo Järvi with Fauré
Paavo Järvi with Fauré
Paavo Järvi Music Director
Giulia Semenzato Sopran
Rodion Pogossov Bariton
Iveta Apkalna Orgel
Zürcher Sing-Akademie
Florian Helgath Einstudierung
Francis Poulenc Orgelkonzert g-Moll
Pause Gabriel Fauré Requiem op. 48 für Solisten, Chor, Orgel und Orchester
If you ask about the greatest rarities in this year's programme, Fauré's "Super flumina Babylonis" has a good chance of taking the top spot. Fauré composed the work for tenor solo, choir and orchestra as an 18-year-old – to Psalm No. 136, which also inspired Verdi's famous "Va, pensiero". Although Fauré worked as an organist for a long time and wrote numerous sacred works, he always emphasised that he was not a believer. He also composed his "Requiem" "for fun", he once said: as an alternative to the other masses for the dead that he so often had to accompany. No doubt: Poulenc's imaginative organ concert, in which our focus artist Iveta Apkalna can pull out all the stops of her skills and our Kuhn organ, would have pleased him.
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