Durufle Requiem by Candlelight at All Saints Church, Bristol on Saturday 14th March 2020

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Durufle Requiem by Candlelight

Add to my Calendar 14-03-2020 19:30 14-03-2020 21:30 36 Durufle Requiem by Candlelight Duruflé’s passionate and moving Requiem is at the heart of this concert, full of mystical and ethereal music in the candlelit ambience of All Saints’ Church, Clifton. The work’s combination of sonorous plainsong and beautiful melodies with dramatic virtuosic passages for choir and organ has made this piece a favourite with choirs and audiences. Experience the power of a 100-strong choir performing Samuel Barber’s soaring and heartfelt Agnus Dei, the composer’s own choral arrangement of his famous Adagio for Strings, together with a wonderful motet for choir and  two sopranos by Ēriks E&scaron;envalds and motets by Poulenc. The choir is joined by the virtuoso cellist Richard May to perform Tavener’s atmospheric and mesmerising work Svyati. He accompanies Bristol-based mezzo soprano soloist Jenna Cooper in a performance of a haunting motet from All Hallows’ Mass by the Danish composer Frederik Magle All Saints Church, Bristol DD/MM/YYYY

Details

All Saints Church
Pembroke Road
Clifton
Bristol
BS8 3ED
England

Saturday 14th March 2020
7:30 PM

Programme

Maurice Duruflé – Requiem, Op.9
Frederik Magle – Alting har sin tid på jorden
Eriks Esenvalds – O Salutaris Hostia
Samuel Barber – Agnus Dei
John Tavener – Svyati
Camille Saint-Saens – Prière, Op.158
Amy Summers – Nunc dimittis
Francis Poulenc – Timor et tremor, FP 97 no.1

Performers

David Ogden – Conductor
Jenna Brown – mezzo-soprano
Richard Johnson – organ
Richard May – Cello

City of Bristol Choir

Programme Note

Duruflé’s passionate and moving Requiem is at the heart of this concert, full of mystical and ethereal music in the candlelit ambience of All Saints’ Church, Clifton. The work’s combination of sonorous plainsong and beautiful melodies with dramatic virtuosic passages for choir and organ has made this piece a favourite with choirs and audiences.

Experience the power of a 100-strong choir performing Samuel Barber’s soaring and heartfelt Agnus Dei, the composer’s own choral arrangement of his famous Adagio for Strings, together with a wonderful motet for choir and two sopranos by Ēriks Ešenvalds and motets by Poulenc.

The choir is joined by the virtuoso cellist Richard May to perform Tavener’s atmospheric and mesmerising work Svyati. He accompanies Bristol-based mezzo soprano soloist Jenna Cooper in a performance of a haunting motet from All Hallows’ Mass by the Danish composer Frederik Magle

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