Faurés requiem

Faurés requiem and a world premiere by Maria Lithell Flyg THIS CONCERT brings together two works that explore the boundaries of life and human experience in different ways.

Gabriel Fauré’s Requiem is one of classical music’s most cherished sacred works, known for its serene and luminous character. Rather than drama and images of the Last Judgement, Fauré offers a more restrained and comforting interpretation of the requiem tradition. The concert also includes a world premiere: Maria Lithell Flyg’s new work De andra for soprano and string quartet, with a text by Malte Persson. The poem explores how death always seems to strike “the others”, and Lithell’s music captures this duality – the everyday and the existential side by side. The work gives a contemporary voice to questions of loss, closeness and life continuing. Together, the works form a programme in which a classical masterpiece meets new music, allowing two perspectives on the same theme to stand alongside one another.

Performers: Alma-kvartetten, Sofia Niklasson, soprano; Nordic vocalists, Patrik Sandin, conductor.