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All the sacred spirit of the Romantic era is embodied in these pages Gabriel Faure's Requiem offers itself without artifice, frank and generous. Begun in 1887 and carefully reworked over the years, the work unfolds with a spiritual fervour bathed in a halo of crystalline honesty, carried by a fluid choral writing. Victor Jacob conducts the Orchestre de l'Opera Royal in revealing the 1893 version, the first complete edition of this masterpiece. Selected works by Brahms, Schubert, Rossini, and Rheinberger bridge the divine and the secular, transforming this album into a journey steeped in depth and melancholy, where the purity of the score draws the listener's mind into unsuspected reveries. Album Tracks 1. Péchés de vieillesse, Book 3 (Morceaux réservés)~Quelques mesures de chant funèbre à mon pauvre ami Meyerbeer 2. Gesang der Geister den Wassern, D. 714 3. Vier Gesänge, Op. 17~Es tönt ein voller Harfenklang 4. Vier Gesänge, Op. 17~Lied von Shakespeare 5. Vier Gesänge, Op. 17~Der Gärtner 6. Vier Gesänge, Op. 17~Gesang aus Final 7. Abendlied, Op. 69 no. 3 8. Requiem, version de 1893~Introïtus 9. Requiem, version de 1893~Offertoire Domine Jesu Christe 10. Requiem, version de 1893~Sanctus 11. Requiem, version de 1893~Pie Jesu 12. Requiem, version de 1893~Agnus Dei 13. Requiem, version de 1893~Libera me 14. Requiem, version de 1893~In Paradisum 15. Cantique de Jean Racine, Op. 11
