Conducted by Jakob Lehmann, the Vox Luminis choir and Anima Eterna Brugge, both ensembles in residence at the Concertgebouw Brugge, are joining forces to offer their historically informed interpretation of Fauré’s Requiem. They chose the 1893 version, the first ‘complete’ version. This astonishing and atypical piece was best described by Fauré himself: “It has been said that it does not express the dread of death; someone has called it a lullaby of death. But that’s how I feel about death: as a happy release, an aspiration to happiness beyond, rather than as a painful passage”.
In the mirror, two powerful and seminal works by Franz Liszt – whom Fauré admired and whom he went to meet expressly in Weimar in 1877 – the symphonic poem Les Préludes and the famous Totentanz, a paraphrase on the Dies Irae — the liturgical part discarded by Fauré in his Requiem — under the fingers of the young pianist Joseph Moog.
January 17, 20:00h Concertgebouw Brugge, BE: https://www.concertgebouw.be/en/anima-eterna-brugge-vox-luminis-xl
January 18, 20:00h Graf Zeppelin Haus Friedrichshafen, DE: https://kalender.friedrichshafen.de/alle-termine/detail/veranstaltung/anima-eterna-brugge-vox-luminis-1/
January 20, 20:00h Musis Arnhem, NL: https://www.musisenstadstheater.nl/programma/anima-eterna-brugge-vox-luminis-liszts-totentanz-en-het-requiem-van-faure/8522
January 21, 20:00h, Aula Magna, Louvain-le Neuve, BE: https://levilar.be/la-saison/voxluminis/
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