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Trio Zadig

PIANO TRIO

[Lockdown Music] « Canticle by Jean Racine » G. Fauré (arr. for Piano Trio)

• Trio Zadig •
Boris Borgolotto - Violin
Marc Girard Garcia - Cello
Ian Barber - Piano

« Cantique de Jean Racine » (Chant by Jean Racine), Op. 11, is a composition for mixed choir and piano or organ by Gabriel Fauré. The text, "Verbe égal au Très-Haut" ("Word, one with the Highest"), is a French paraphrase by Jean Racine of a Latin hymn from the breviary for matins, Consors paterni luminis. The nineteen-year-old composer set the text in 1864–65 for a composition competition at the École Niedermeyer de Paris, and it won him the first prize. The work was first performed the following year on 4 August 1866 in a version with accompaniment of strings and organ. The style shows similarities with his later work, Requiem.


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