Rating: - A requiem that brings peace in the turmoil of the world
Fauré is perfectly at ease in this Requiem in that extremely agitated period of 1900, agitated by the industrial revolution or by the social war going on in the mines and the big factories. This world cut in two with the haves on one hand and the have-nots on the other, and the tremendous violence between them, between those who had paradise on earth and those who only had paradise beyond death, and death is flattening all differences into some long walk or long march to that beyond no word in no language is able to name, let alone describe. Fauré tried then with his music to take us from the riches of Madeleine's church in Paris to the soul-breaking death, that door to a somewhere that is nowhere in our knowledge. Soft, deep, somber, lurking behind each note, each vowel, looming high when least visible, death is the perfect peace in which we can all rest in peace indeed. We can hear in the distance the noise of the choppers in the air, of the rumbling cars on the highways, of the shouts and yells of the demonstrating strikers in the distance, but life has stopped with the trains and we discover we are so little when the hands of the few who pull our strings decide to cut the strings and let us fall to the ground like inarticulate letters cast in a perfect messy heap of waste. When life decides to cut us off the grid and unplug us from the wall socket we are so little, so close to nothing. We can just sit there in a park and let that life go its way, away from us and we can rest in its absence in the light whisper of eternal cosmic survival floating sweetly down from the sky onto our foreheads to accompany us into that pilgrimage to the other side of life.
Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris Dauphine, University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne & University Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines
Fauré: Requiem op.48 · Pavane op.50 · Elégie op.24 · Après un Rêve op.7 Reviews
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