Gabriel Fauré's Requiem, Op. 48 opens with an unsmiling D spread out in octaves across the orchestra. Grave and unquestioning, it doesn't ask for your attention - it just takes it. But the composition ...

French phenom Lionel Bringuier conducts Faure's divine choral-orchestral masterpiece that focuses on his view on the acceptance of a peaceful death. George Walker was among the greatest composers to ...

Conductors generally like applause, and some are good at milking it. But on Friday evening at Orchestra Hall in Minneapolis, the French-Canadian Bernard Labadie did the opposite: He asked the audience ...