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Faure Requiem and Young Composer Competition
Wonderfully contrasting choral delights from South Yorkshire's foremost mixed-voice choir
Part of the Sheffield Philharmonic Chorus 2024-25 Season
Add to my Calendar 23-03-2025 20:00 23-03-2025 22:00 36 Faure Requiem and Young Composer Competition Contrasting choral delights from South Yorkshire’s foremost mixed-voice choir closes Classical Sheffield Festival Weekend 2025 in the wonderful acoustic of St Marie’s cathedral. Gerard Finzi 's rousing work is followed by three new compositions by Stephen Johnson, presenter of Radio 3’s critically-acclaimed "Discovering Music". The first half will conclude with the world premiere of the winning work from the Stella Jockel Young Composer Competition, set up by the Chorus in 2022 to support young composers, funded by Stella’s generous legacy. The concert ends with Gabriel Fauré’s hauntingly beautiful and much-loved Requiem. “Everything I managed to entertain by way of religious illusion I put into my Requiem, which moreover is dominated from beginning to end by a very human feeling of faith in eternal rest.” A wonderful way to bring your weekend, and this marvellous festival, to a close! St Marie's Cathedral, Sheffield DD/MM/YYYYDetails
St Marie's Cathedral
Norfolk Street
Sheffield
South Yorkshire
S1 2JB
England
Programme
Gerald Finzi – Lo, The Full Final Sacrifice
Stephen Johnson – To wed again
Stephen Johnson – This going hence
Stephen Johnson – The Miracle Tree
~ Interval ~
Gabriel Fauré – Requiem, Op.48 (1883)
Performers
Darius Battiwalla – Conductor
Neil Taylor – organ
Sheffield Philharmonic Chorus
Programme Note
Contrasting choral delights from South Yorkshire’s foremost mixed-voice choir closes Classical Sheffield Festival Weekend 2025 in the wonderful acoustic of St Marie’s cathedral.
Gerard Finzi 's rousing work is followed by three new compositions by Stephen Johnson, presenter of Radio 3’s critically-acclaimed "Discovering Music".
The first half will conclude with the world premiere of the winning work from the Stella Jockel Young Composer Competition, set up by the Chorus in 2022 to support young composers, funded by Stella’s generous legacy.
The concert ends with Gabriel Fauré’s hauntingly beautiful and much-loved Requiem. “Everything I managed to entertain by way of religious illusion I put into my Requiem, which moreover is dominated from beginning to end by a very human feeling of faith in eternal rest.”
A wonderful way to bring your weekend, and this marvellous festival, to a close!
