Songs on Birth and Disappearance: Fauré and Fortmann

Description

Gabriel Fauré: REQUIEM (arr. T. Fortmann) / Thomas Fortmann: CARMINA MUNDI (world premiere) The new 2026 project by Cantabile Chor is titled "Songs of Birth and Disappearance." Fauré's "Requiem," a work from the late Romantic period, is contrasted with the world premiere of Swiss composer Thomas Fortmann's "Carmina Mundi." In seven movements, Fortmann sets to music mystical texts from major world religions and combines their characteristic tones and rhythms with his personal style.
Between the two parts of the concert, Professor Reinhold Bernhardt, emeritus professor of systematic theology and dogmatics at the University of Basel, will explain the commonalities between religions. The November concerts are part of the "Week of Religions of the Two Basels."
Fauré's peaceful Requiem deliberately departs from the dramatic tradition of the Requiem Mass. Fortmann rearranges the instrumental part and links Fauré's work to "Carmina Mundi" on a sonic level. Cantabile Choir of Pratteln
Prof. R. Bernhardt: meditation on the commonalities between world religions
Claudia Schmidlin: soprano
Anthony Pacheco: baritone
Ad hoc instrumental ensemble
Bernhard Dittmann: conducting Note: This text was translated by an automatic translation software and not by a human translator. It may contain translation errors.

Highlights

• Fauré's Requiem and world premiere of Fortmann
• Intervention by Prof. R. Bernhardt on religions
• Cantabile Choir of Pratteln and instrumental ensemble

General Information

The concert "Songs on Birth and Disappearance" features Gabriel Fauré's Requiem and the world premiere of Thomas Fortmann. It takes place at the Kulturkirche Paulus in Basel and includes a meditation on the commonalities between religions, led by Professor Reinhold Bernhardt.

Location

Steinenring 20, 4051 Basel, Switzerland

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