Closing concert 2025!
Lux Eterna! This year's festival theme also forms the basis for our closing concert, which features two of the most beautiful requiems ever composed, by the French composers Maurice Duruflé and Gabriel Fauré.
A requiem is a mass for the dead, and many of us might think that it is both dramatic and mournful. Certainly when we listen to Mozart or Verdi's Requiem, which have many of these elements in them. But Duruflé and Fauré perhaps centre beauty and light more than anything else in their masses. Who says that death is only heavy and sad? In this way, they serve up both security and comfort in their music, and the song of the angels literally ends both the festival and the concert when Gabriel Fauré's In Paradisum sends us out of the festival bubble and into the world.
Oslo Domkor with cathedral organist Marcus Andre Berg are performing, together with soloists Berit Norbakken, Marianne Beate Kielland and Aleksander Nohr. The cathedral cantor is Oddgeir Kjetilstad.
