Fauré’s Requiem – Orchestre Métropolitain

Conductor

Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Soprano

Suzanne Taffot
Bass-baritone

Philippe Sly
Choir

Professional chorus singers

“Tenderness is invincible,” as the saying goes. Fauré’s Requiem, arguably his most masterful work, comforts the bereaved and pays tribute to the victims of the pandemic. The Chariot Jubilee, written by Canadian African-American Nathaniel Dett, celebrates Black lives through music.

Fauré considered death “a happy deliverance, an aspiration towards happiness above, rather than a painful experience,” a conviction embodied in his peaceful Requiem. Precise and luminous, the work uses timbre and instruments with restraint, paying tribute to their sound, their voice, and lifting the souls of the living as well as the departed. With the rich and vivid voice of soprano Suzanne Taffot, Nathaniel Dett’s The Chariot Jubilee evokes gospel classics with the expressivity of late Romanticism.

Works

Dett

1882 – 1943

The Chariot Jubilee

Fauré

1845 – 1924

Requiem

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