Composers have been setting ‘Pie Jesu’ to music for the last few hundred years. But what are the lyrics to this beautiful Latin miniature? At its simplest, ‘Pie Jesu’ is just two lines of text from ...

In his seven-section Requiem, the French composer Gabriel Fauré distilled some of the most beautiful melodies he ever composed. The creation was almost certainly a musical tribute to his father, who ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Encounters with Fauré’s piano music in recitals are generally limited to small selections of pieces, but there ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Jae S. Lee - Staff Photographer Benjamin Rivinius (front) and Dirk Mommertz (top left) performed onstage with the Fauré Piano Quartet during Monday’s concert, presented by the Dallas Chamber Music ...