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Fauré Requiem
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SPECIAL PERFOMANCE: Sunday, June 21, 2026 at 1:00 PM
Carnegie Hall, NY, NY
Carnegie Hall, NY, NY
Produced by MidAmerica Productions
Sarah Kochevar, Soprano --- Junhan Choi, Baritone
New England Symphonic Ensemble
Michael Shirtz, Conductor
There are other works on this program
(by Mozart, Dan Forrest, and Taylor Scott Davis),
and participants from various out-of-town choirs.
Here is the site with concert info and to buy tickets:
www.carnegiehall.org/Calendar/2026/06/21/New-England-Symphonic-Ensemble-0100PM
Sarah Kochevar, Soprano --- Junhan Choi, Baritone
New England Symphonic Ensemble
Michael Shirtz, Conductor
There are other works on this program
(by Mozart, Dan Forrest, and Taylor Scott Davis),
and participants from various out-of-town choirs.
Here is the site with concert info and to buy tickets:
www.carnegiehall.org/Calendar/2026/06/21/New-England-Symphonic-Ensemble-0100PM
REHEARSAL SCHEDULE
NYC REHEARSALS:
· FRI., June 19 - 8:30 AM = Rehearsal Check in
9:00 AM to 12:00 PM = Rehearsal
SITE: Hotel Martinique NY, 49 W. 32ns St. -- Ballroom AB
· SAT., June 20 1:00 PM = Rehearsal Check in
1:15 to 5:00 PM = Rehearsal
SITE: Hotel Martinique NY, 49 W. 32ns St. -- Ballroom AB
· SUN., June 21 - Carnegie Hall - Enter via Stage Door - 151. W. 56th St.
CHORUS CALL = 9:00 AM
REHEARSAL ON STAGE = 9:50 Am to 10:35 AM
CONCERT begins at 1:00 PM
FAURE CHORUS CALL TIME = 1:15 PM (Use STAGE DOOR)
FAURE PERFORMANCE BEGINS AT 2:05 PM
· FRI., June 19 - 8:30 AM = Rehearsal Check in
9:00 AM to 12:00 PM = Rehearsal
SITE: Hotel Martinique NY, 49 W. 32ns St. -- Ballroom AB
· SAT., June 20 1:00 PM = Rehearsal Check in
1:15 to 5:00 PM = Rehearsal
SITE: Hotel Martinique NY, 49 W. 32ns St. -- Ballroom AB
· SUN., June 21 - Carnegie Hall - Enter via Stage Door - 151. W. 56th St.
CHORUS CALL = 9:00 AM
REHEARSAL ON STAGE = 9:50 Am to 10:35 AM
CONCERT begins at 1:00 PM
FAURE CHORUS CALL TIME = 1:15 PM (Use STAGE DOOR)
FAURE PERFORMANCE BEGINS AT 2:05 PM
If you are interested in participating, please sign up on this Google sheet:
docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1AQ3GtIr-g8ptqkWtNAmpOMe-AmAO_4uF4qrl2245L9I/edit?usp=sharing
Please NOTE that there are 4 pages at this site, one for each voice type.
The number of places is limited,
so please make your decision based on what is actually possible for you.
MidAmerica reserves the right to stipulate the number of singers it can accommodate
and the voice types needed.
docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1AQ3GtIr-g8ptqkWtNAmpOMe-AmAO_4uF4qrl2245L9I/edit?usp=sharing
Please NOTE that there are 4 pages at this site, one for each voice type.
The number of places is limited,
so please make your decision based on what is actually possible for you.
MidAmerica reserves the right to stipulate the number of singers it can accommodate
and the voice types needed.
BACKGROUND:
Gabriel Faure (1845 - 1924) composed his Requiem in D minor, Op. 48, between 1887 and 1890. This choral-orchestral setting of the shortened Catholic Mass for the Dead in Latin is the best-known of his large works.
Its focus is on eternal rest and consolation. Faure's reasons for composing the work are unclear, but do not appear to have had anything to do with the death of his parents in the mid-1880s. He composed the work in the late 1880s and revised it in the 1890s, finishing it in 1900.
In seven movements, the work is scored for soprano and baritone soloists, mixed choir, orchestra and organ. Different from typical Requiem settings, the full sequence Dies irae is omitted, replaced by its section Pie Jesu. The final movement In Paradisum is based on a text that is not part of the liturgy of the funeral Mass but of the burial.
Faure wrote of the work, "Everything I managed to entertain by way of religious illusion I put into my Requiem, which moreover is dominated from beginning to end by a very human feeling of faith in eternal rest."
The piece premiered in its first version in 1888 in La Madeleine in Paris for a funeral Mass. A performance takes about 35 minutes.
For more background info, see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Requiem_(Faur%C3%A9)
Gabriel Faure (1845 - 1924) composed his Requiem in D minor, Op. 48, between 1887 and 1890. This choral-orchestral setting of the shortened Catholic Mass for the Dead in Latin is the best-known of his large works.
Its focus is on eternal rest and consolation. Faure's reasons for composing the work are unclear, but do not appear to have had anything to do with the death of his parents in the mid-1880s. He composed the work in the late 1880s and revised it in the 1890s, finishing it in 1900.
In seven movements, the work is scored for soprano and baritone soloists, mixed choir, orchestra and organ. Different from typical Requiem settings, the full sequence Dies irae is omitted, replaced by its section Pie Jesu. The final movement In Paradisum is based on a text that is not part of the liturgy of the funeral Mass but of the burial.
Faure wrote of the work, "Everything I managed to entertain by way of religious illusion I put into my Requiem, which moreover is dominated from beginning to end by a very human feeling of faith in eternal rest."
The piece premiered in its first version in 1888 in La Madeleine in Paris for a funeral Mass. A performance takes about 35 minutes.
For more background info, see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Requiem_(Faur%C3%A9)
SCORES
------- Recommended score to purchase: Edition by John Rutter,
published by Oxford University Press
--UPC: 9780193361034
$14.25 at J. W. Pepper
www.jwpepper.com/requiem-1537414-882334/p
published by Oxford University Press
--UPC: 9780193361034
$14.25 at J. W. Pepper
www.jwpepper.com/requiem-1537414-882334/p
------ A FREE score that you can download, edited by Philip Legge.
Please note that I have not yet checked it for accuracy.
www.cpdl.org/wiki/images/3/37/Faure_Requiem_VS_PML.pdf
Please note that I have not yet checked it for accuracy.
www.cpdl.org/wiki/images/3/37/Faure_Requiem_VS_PML.pdf
LISTENING
MP3s of MIDI realizations of each part (S - A - T 1 - T 2 - B 1 - B2)
for each movement:
www.choralia.net/fr02mp3/fr02mp3en.htm
for each movement:
www.choralia.net/fr02mp3/fr02mp3en.htm
EXAMPLES of PARTS, LISTED BY EACH MOVEMENT:
NOTE that MOVEMENT #4 "Pie Jesu" is for Soprano soloist only
NOTE that MOVEMENT #4 "Pie Jesu" is for Soprano soloist only
MOVEMENT #1 - INTROIT & KYRIE
SOPRANO dominant - www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGWdf0gIOSI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mh6aWSyqmlQ&list=PL9SD3GZ81VdhPF6aDwrlBRbkz-ifBgsfM
SOPRANO vocal line only (with piano accompaniment) -
www.youtube.com/watch?v=diANUqJ0Z8s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mh6aWSyqmlQ&list=PL9SD3GZ81VdhPF6aDwrlBRbkz-ifBgsfM
SOPRANO vocal line only (with piano accompaniment) -
www.youtube.com/watch?v=diANUqJ0Z8s
ALTO dominant - www.youtube.com/watch?v=yICBdPWD6Vo
ALTO vocal line only (with piano accompaniment) -
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sLhC8QxN3g&list=RD-sLhC8QxN3g&start_radio=1
ALTO vocal line only (with piano accompaniment) -
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sLhC8QxN3g&list=RD-sLhC8QxN3g&start_radio=1
TENOR 1 dominant -
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZJg9sd5Jd8
TENOR 1 dominant (with beat click) -
www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_hlHs6O2ew&list=RDC_hlHs6O2ew&start_radio=1
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZJg9sd5Jd8
TENOR 1 dominant (with beat click) -
www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_hlHs6O2ew&list=RDC_hlHs6O2ew&start_radio=1
TENOR 2 dominant -
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nl3vqUgIUnU
TENOR 2 dominant -
www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_p1jVZrOS0&list=RDd_p1jVZrOS0&start_radio=1
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nl3vqUgIUnU
TENOR 2 dominant -
www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_p1jVZrOS0&list=RDd_p1jVZrOS0&start_radio=1
BASS 1 dominant -
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVTJsz3rXXU&list=PLa3ZBVWX19VOO0qaWSKaC4CpCVNbiERph&index=1
BASS 1 dominant -
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pqFnAPXCJE&list=PLZWKPfet199C7b0dQp3SUG-mDIWScg2LE
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVTJsz3rXXU&list=PLa3ZBVWX19VOO0qaWSKaC4CpCVNbiERph&index=1
BASS 1 dominant -
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pqFnAPXCJE&list=PLZWKPfet199C7b0dQp3SUG-mDIWScg2LE
BASS 2 dominant -
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ei_qiXI54ik&list=PLa3ZBVWX19VPApgiD249ABODZWGmLdkCK&index=1
BASS 2 dominant -
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hk6shSuhgvg&list=RDHk6shSuhgvg&start_radio=1
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ei_qiXI54ik&list=PLa3ZBVWX19VPApgiD249ABODZWGmLdkCK&index=1
BASS 2 dominant -
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hk6shSuhgvg&list=RDHk6shSuhgvg&start_radio=1
MOVEMENT #2 - OFFERTORY
SOPRANO dominant - www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9sXTLo25Zk
Note that the Sopranos' first entrance in this movement is at meas. 79
Note that the Sopranos' first entrance in this movement is at meas. 79
ALTO dominant - www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxuiAM32NJ0
NOTE that the Alto part in Movement #2 is quite prominent in its first section,
and that much of it is a cappella
NOTE that the Alto part in Movement #2 is quite prominent in its first section,
and that much of it is a cappella
TENOR 1 dominant -
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbxl87URISM&list=PLa3ZBVWX19VMNvTkrJJSJT0n-USF45n3W&index=2
NOTE that the Tenor part in Movement #2 is quite prominent in its first section,
and that much of it is a cappella
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbxl87URISM&list=PLa3ZBVWX19VMNvTkrJJSJT0n-USF45n3W&index=2
NOTE that the Tenor part in Movement #2 is quite prominent in its first section,
and that much of it is a cappella
TENOR 2 dominant -
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFDuC4mI7rk&list=PLa3ZBVWX19VMibSctQa6UAtnu5MOkwTQK&index=2
NOTE that the Tenor part in Movement #2 is quite prominent in its first section,
and that much of it is a cappella
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFDuC4mI7rk&list=PLa3ZBVWX19VMibSctQa6UAtnu5MOkwTQK&index=2
NOTE that the Tenor part in Movement #2 is quite prominent in its first section,
and that much of it is a cappella
BASS 1 dominant - first BASS entrance is at m. 23
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlQzZQwm8_o&list=PLa3ZBVWX19VOO0qaWSKaC4CpCVNbiERph&index=2
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlQzZQwm8_o&list=PLa3ZBVWX19VOO0qaWSKaC4CpCVNbiERph&index=2
BASS 2 dominant - first BASS entrance is at m. 23
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPePALnq3RY&list=PLa3ZBVWX19VPApgiD249ABODZWGmLdkCK&index=2
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPePALnq3RY&list=PLa3ZBVWX19VPApgiD249ABODZWGmLdkCK&index=2
MOVEMENT #3 - SANCTUS
ALTO dominant - Note that the Altos sing only two bars in this movement (m. 55-56), just before its end.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyYt9Aw9U_Q
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyYt9Aw9U_Q
TENOR 1 dominant -
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPBx7fnrLyQ&list=PLa3ZBVWX19VMNvTkrJJSJT0n-USF45n3W&index=3
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPBx7fnrLyQ&list=PLa3ZBVWX19VMNvTkrJJSJT0n-USF45n3W&index=3
TENOR 2 dominant -
www.youtube.com/watch?v=R88fK08ErDo&list=PLa3ZBVWX19VMibSctQa6UAtnu5MOkwTQK&index=3
www.youtube.com/watch?v=R88fK08ErDo&list=PLa3ZBVWX19VMibSctQa6UAtnu5MOkwTQK&index=3
BASS 1 dominant -
www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5bKOUApKhs&list=PLa3ZBVWX19VOO0qaWSKaC4CpCVNbiERph&index=3
www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5bKOUApKhs&list=PLa3ZBVWX19VOO0qaWSKaC4CpCVNbiERph&index=3
BASS 2 dominant -
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKnzePSN-dA&list=PLa3ZBVWX19VPApgiD249ABODZWGmLdkCK&index=3
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKnzePSN-dA&list=PLa3ZBVWX19VPApgiD249ABODZWGmLdkCK&index=3
MOVEMENT #5 - AGNUS DEI
The SOPRANO part here is the featured voice. My conducting teacher, Dan Moe, said to "sing it like you are singing in Paradise." So please, practice, practice, practice this movement!
SOPRANO dominant - www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnppiV72n_0
SOPRANO dominant - www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnppiV72n_0
ALTO dominant - www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrizGgHqSAw
TENOR 1 dominant -
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dj5MT9SZdY&list=PLa3ZBVWX19VMNvTkrJJSJT0n-USF45n3W&index=4
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dj5MT9SZdY&list=PLa3ZBVWX19VMNvTkrJJSJT0n-USF45n3W&index=4
TENOR 2 dominant -
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DP0IUKoEQ_g&list=PLa3ZBVWX19VMibSctQa6UAtnu5MOkwTQK&index=4
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DP0IUKoEQ_g&list=PLa3ZBVWX19VMibSctQa6UAtnu5MOkwTQK&index=4
BASS 1 dominant -
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvAHidjwb2M&list=PLa3ZBVWX19VOO0qaWSKaC4CpCVNbiERph&index=4
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvAHidjwb2M&list=PLa3ZBVWX19VOO0qaWSKaC4CpCVNbiERph&index=4
BASS 2 dominant -
www.youtube.com/watch?v=shFPs7Klb0M&list=PLa3ZBVWX19VPApgiD249ABODZWGmLdkCK&index=4
www.youtube.com/watch?v=shFPs7Klb0M&list=PLa3ZBVWX19VPApgiD249ABODZWGmLdkCK&index=4
MOVEMENT #6 - LIBERA ME
Note that the Chorus' first entrance in this movment is at meas. 37/38
Note that the Chorus' first entrance in this movment is at meas. 37/38
ALTO dominant - www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdE_Gt-js2A
TENOR 1 dominant -
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMMX2cJISI0&list=PLa3ZBVWX19VMNvTkrJJSJT0n-USF45n3W&index=5
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMMX2cJISI0&list=PLa3ZBVWX19VMNvTkrJJSJT0n-USF45n3W&index=5
TENOR 2 dominant -
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7R-l5D_RhQE&list=PLa3ZBVWX19VMibSctQa6UAtnu5MOkwTQK&index=5
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7R-l5D_RhQE&list=PLa3ZBVWX19VMibSctQa6UAtnu5MOkwTQK&index=5
BASS 1 dominant -
www.youtube.com/watch?v=05s_r8GN_wg&list=PLa3ZBVWX19VOO0qaWSKaC4CpCVNbiERph&index=5
www.youtube.com/watch?v=05s_r8GN_wg&list=PLa3ZBVWX19VOO0qaWSKaC4CpCVNbiERph&index=5
BASS 2 dominant -
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BsKvbqL3d8&list=PLa3ZBVWX19VPApgiD249ABODZWGmLdkCK&index=5
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BsKvbqL3d8&list=PLa3ZBVWX19VPApgiD249ABODZWGmLdkCK&index=5
MOVEMENT #7 - IN PARADISUM
The Soprano is the featured part in this movement. My conducting teacher, Daniel Moe, once said to sing it "like you are singing in Paradise." So please practice, practice, practice!
SOPRANO dominant - www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGd5NsTcrVs
SOP. - midi with scrolling score - www.youtube.com/watch?v=VO_0oBRMwCQ
SOPRANO dominant - www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGd5NsTcrVs
SOP. - midi with scrolling score - www.youtube.com/watch?v=VO_0oBRMwCQ
ALTO dominant - www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qi9f-hMfAis
Note that the Altos' first entrance in this movement is at meas. 26.
Note that the Altos' first entrance in this movement is at meas. 26.
TENOR 2 dominant - first TENOR entrance is at m. 21
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxHFmwAPwzE&list=PLa3ZBVWX19VMibSctQa6UAtnu5MOkwTQK&index=6
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxHFmwAPwzE&list=PLa3ZBVWX19VMibSctQa6UAtnu5MOkwTQK&index=6
BASS 1 dominant - first BASS entrance is at m. 21
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrQaVXDxIEY&list=PLa3ZBVWX19VOO0qaWSKaC4CpCVNbiERph&index=6
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrQaVXDxIEY&list=PLa3ZBVWX19VOO0qaWSKaC4CpCVNbiERph&index=6
BASS 2 dominant - first BASS entrance is at m. 21
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uviq0ggomk&list=PLa3ZBVWX19VPApgiD249ABODZWGmLdkCK&index=6
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uviq0ggomk&list=PLa3ZBVWX19VPApgiD249ABODZWGmLdkCK&index=6