This is not your typical Requiem. Anguish, loss, and fear of death are gone—replaced with a tender vision of paradise that awaits. Gabriel Fauré’s masterpiece is one of the most iconic works of the sacred choral repertoire, comforting audiences far beyond the composer’s Parisian congregation. Bernard Labadie conducts the divine score, along with symphonies by Mozart and Rigel that also premiered to great acclaim in Paris.

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Bernard Labadie conducts Fauré’s Requiem & Mozart’s “Paris” Symphony

California Center for the Arts

“One felt we were hearing the score exactly as Mozart wanted us to hear it,” says The Globe and Mail of esteemed conductor Bernard Labadie, who leads the MSO in Mozart’s Symphony No. 40, an urgent masterpiece which celebrates the trials and triumph of the human spirit. The MSO’s own Principal Trumpet Matthew Ernst plays Hummel’s Trumpet Concerto, composed to demonstrate the instrument’s versatility and range and riddled with influence from Hummel’s own teacher, Mozart. Performed far too rarely, Rigel’s distinctive Fourth Symphony opens the program with drama.

Henri-Joseph Rigel

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4 - 6 Apr, 2024

Bernard Labadie conducts Fauré’s Requiem & Mozart’s “Paris” Symphony · National Symphony Orchestra

26 - 27 Jan, 2024

Labadie Conducts Mozart · Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra

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