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
Prélude
07. Mar 2024, 18.00 Uhr
Kleine Tonhalle
Künstlergespräch und Kammermusik
Zur ZHdK
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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