The Lark Ascending and Duruflé Requiem: with City of London Sinfonia and Brighton Festival Chorus at Cadogan Hall, London on Sunday 22nd June 2025

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The Lark Ascending and Duruflé Requiem

with City of London Sinfonia and Brighton Festival Chorus

Add to my Calendar 22-06-2025 16:00 22-06-2025 18:00 36 The Lark Ascending and Duruflé Requiem Join the City of London Sinfonia and Brighton Festival Chorus, with conductor James Morgan, for a contemplative summer programme. Vaughan Williams’ beautiful Fantasia on Greensleeves is followed by the UK premiere of Libby Croad’s The Brontë Suite – a stunning setting for choir and strings of poetry by each of the three Brontë sisters. We welcome Alexandra Wood to play Vaughan Williams’ The Lark Ascending. Written in the summer of 1914 on the eve of war, it has a poignancy, beauty, and a sense of nostalgia that captures the very essence of reflectiveness and Englishness. After the interval, Duruflé’s greatest composition, his Requiem – one of the undisputed masterpieces of the 20th-century choral repertoire, described as “a work of sumptuous craft, beautiful unity and real grandeur”. Cadogan Hall, London DD/MM/YYYY

Details

Cadogan Hall
5 Sloane Terrace
Sloane Square, Belgravia
London
SW1X 9DQ
England

Sunday 22nd June 2025
4:00 PM

Programme

Ralph Vaughan Williams – Fantasia on Greensleeves
Libby Croad – The Brontë Suite
Ralph Vaughan Williams – The Lark Ascending
~ Interval ~
Maurice Duruflé – Requiem, Op.9

Performers

Alexandra Wood – violin
James Morgan – Conductor

Brighton Festival Chorus
City of London Sinfonia

Programme Note

Join the City of London Sinfonia and Brighton Festival Chorus, with conductor James Morgan, for a contemplative summer programme.

Vaughan Williams’ beautiful Fantasia on Greensleeves is followed by the UK premiere of Libby Croad’s The Brontë Suite – a stunning setting for choir and strings of poetry by each of the three Brontë sisters.

We welcome Alexandra Wood to play Vaughan Williams’ The Lark Ascending. Written in the summer of 1914 on the eve of war, it has a poignancy, beauty, and a sense of nostalgia that captures the very essence of reflectiveness and Englishness.

After the interval, Duruflé’s greatest composition, his Requiem – one of the undisputed masterpieces of the 20th-century choral repertoire, described as “a work of sumptuous craft, beautiful unity and real grandeur”.

Lark Ascending and Duruflé Requiem with Brighton Festival Chorus

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