Duruflé Requiem: Anton Bruckner, Richard Vaughan, Josef Rheinberger & Pierre Villette at All Saints Church, Penarth on Saturday 28th June 2025

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Duruflé Requiem

Anton Bruckner, Richard Vaughan, Josef Rheinberger & Pierre Villette

Add to my Calendar 28-06-2025 19:00 28-06-2025 21:00 36 Duruflé Requiem Cardiff Polyphonic Choir return to All Saints Church in Penarth for what promises to be a stunning culmination of our 60th anniversary year.  Our programme centres on Durufle’s setting of the Requiem mass. Composed in 1947, the Requiem has earned its place as one of the masterpieces of its genre. Like much of Durufle’s music, it draws heavily on plainsong. It has been said that the effect of Durufle’s setting is an interplay between a vision of hope and a sense of spiritual struggle. We aim to convey the intense drama of this battle through our interpretation and performance.  Alongside the Requiem, we will be performing works including Pierre Villette’s Tu es Petrus, Richard Vaughan’s Justorum Animae, Anton Bruckner’s Ave Maria and Christus factus est, and Josef Rheinberger’s Abendleid.   We will be conducted by Thomas Blunt, accompanied by Philip Aspden, and joined by outstanding soloists, Monika Sawa and Owain Rowlands.   After the concert, please join us for a celebratory wine reception as we toast six decades of music—and look ahead to the next chapter.  We hope you can join us!  All Saints Church, Penarth DD/MM/YYYY

Details

All Saints Church
Victoria Square
Penarth
Vale of Glamorgan
CF64 3EL
Wales

Saturday 28th June 2025
7:00 PM

Programme

Pierre Villette – Tu es Petrus, Op.29
Richard Vaughan – Justorum Animae
Anton Bruckner – Christus factus est, WAB 11
Anton Bruckner – Ave Maria, WAB 6
Josef Gabriel Rheinberger – Abendlied, Op.69 no.3
Pierre Villette – O salutaris hostia, Op.21
~ Interval ~
Maurice Duruflé – Requiem, Op.9

Performers

Owain Rowlands – baritone
Monika Sawa – soprano
Thomas Blunt – Conductor
Philip Aspden – Accompanist

Cardiff Polyphonic Choir

Programme Note

Cardiff Polyphonic Choir return to All Saints Church in Penarth for what promises to be a stunning culmination of our 60th anniversary year.

Our programme centres on Durufle’s setting of the Requiem mass. Composed in 1947, the Requiem has earned its place as one of the masterpieces of its genre. Like much of Durufle’s music, it draws heavily on plainsong. It has been said that the effect of Durufle’s setting is an interplay between a vision of hope and a sense of spiritual struggle. We aim to convey the intense drama of this battle through our interpretation and performance.

Alongside the Requiem, we will be performing works including Pierre Villette’s Tu es Petrus, Richard Vaughan’s Justorum Animae, Anton Bruckner’s Ave Maria and Christus factus est, and Josef Rheinberger’s Abendleid.

We will be conducted by Thomas Blunt, accompanied by Philip Aspden, and joined by outstanding soloists, Monika Sawa and Owain Rowlands.

After the concert, please join us for a celebratory wine reception as we toast six decades of music—and look ahead to the next chapter.

We hope you can join us!

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