Orchestre De Chambre De Lausanne / Ensemble Vocal De Lausanne / Renaud Capuçon / Siobhan Stagg / Benjamin Appl by Fauré, Martin, Van (2024/2024), Dirigent Renaud Capuçon, La Grange au Lac, Évian-les-Bains, Frankrijk

Few masses for the dead bend divine anger to the sweetness of paradise. Fauré's Requiem is one of them, entirely focused on a peaceful vision of death, seen as "a happy deliverance, rather than a painful passage". On this path of light, Fauré - organist and church musician at the Madeleine until 1905 - places a confident choir and solos stripped of all artifice, from which emerge the famous "Pie Jesu" and "In Paradisum". Almost a century later, the Swiss Frank Martin signs a most unusual sacred work: a concerto of an unusual depth of tone, inspired by a polyptych on the Passion of Christ, which requires not one but two orchestras. Yehudi Menuhin, its commissioner, felt in playing it "the same elevation of the soul as with Bach's Chaconne ".