In the centenary year of Gabriel Fauré’s death, La Chaise-Dieu Festival pays tribute to this composer of genius, who brought a style, an era and a poetic way of looking at life to the forefront. His Requiem, a veritable “lullaby of death” as Ravel called it, is a case in point. As a mirror image, the Festival de La Chaise-Dieu has commissioned a work by Thomas Lacôte, which will here be given its world premiere, providing us with an opportunity to question the contemporary meaning of the sacred and its musical celebration.

Thomas Lacôte : Répons du baptême (Création mondiale, co-commande du Festival de La Chaise-Dieu et de l’orchestre Les Siècles)
Paschal de L’Estocart, Octonaires de la vanité du monde
Gabriel Fauré, Requiem

Roxane Chalard, soprano
Mathieu Dubroca, baritone
Ensemble Aedes
Les Siècles
Mathieu Romano, conductor