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Chester Cathedral
Saint Werburgh Street
Chester
Cheshire
CH1 2DY
England
Programme
Charles Gounod – Messe solennelle de Sainte-Cécile (St Cecilia Mass)
Cesar Franck – Psalm 150
Cesar Franck – Mass in A major: Panis Angelicus
Gabriel Fauré – Ave verum corpus, Op.65 no.1
Gabriel Fauré – Cantique de Jean Racine, Op.11
Performers
Graham Jordan Ellis – Conductor
Graham Eccles – organ
Chester Music Society Choir
Programme Note
Chester Music Society Choir performs choral works by the composers Gounod, Fauré and Franck in an evening of French music. They are joined on this evening by soloists from the Royal Northern College of Music.
Towards the end of the romantic era the 'classical' styles of the great Austrian and German composers were gradually overtaken by a more impressionistic style typified by a new generation of musicians from France.
Join the Society Choir for performances of late 19th century atmospheric French music: four ever-popular and well-known pieces by Gabriel Fauré and César Franck and the St Cecilia Mass of Charles Gounod.
“This simplicity, this grandeur, this serene light which rose before the musical world like a breaking dawn”: Saint-Saens
The Chester Music Society Choir page.
The Chester Music Society page for Graham Jordan Ellis.
