Requiem by Candlelight: Huntingdonshire Philharmonic Choir and Players at St Mary The Virgin Church, Godmanchester on Saturday 2nd November 2019

Please note: This concert is in the past and has already taken place.

Requiem by Candlelight

Huntingdonshire Philharmonic Choir and Players

Add to my Calendar 02-11-2019 19:30 02-11-2019 21:30 36 Requiem by Candlelight Lovers of French Romantic sacred choral music should save the date Saturday November 2nd, and head to St Mary’s Church in Godmanchester where the Huntingdonshire Philharmonic Choir and Players are performing Requiem by Gabriel Fauré and De Profundis by Marcel Dupré, by candlelight. Both Fauré and Dupré earned a living as accomplished organists and teachers, in addition to composing.  While the Fauré Requiem is a firm popular favourite work, the Duprè composition is relatively unknown.  The first UK performance in its full orchestral version was in Ely Cathedral in May 2001. It is thought that Fauré composed the Requiem as a musical tribute to his father, who died in 1885, three years before work on the Requiem began.  It is a serene and peaceful and non-sombre composition. Dupré completed De Profundis in 1917, dedicated to the soldiers who died for France in the First World War.  The work displays a range of expressive contrasts.  The text, in Latin, is Psalm 130, with the addition at the end of the traditional requiem mass responsory  ‘Requiem aeternum’  which brings to mind the Fauré. Tickets are available online (with no additional fees) from www.huntsphil.org.uk and on the door from 7pm. St Mary The Virgin Church, Godmanchester DD/MM/YYYY

Details

St Mary The Virgin Church
Chadley Lane
Godmanchester
Cambridgeshire
PE29 2AW
England

Saturday 2nd November 2019
7:30 PM

Programme

Gabriel Fauré – Requiem, Op.48 (1883)
Marcel Dupré – De profundis, Op.17

Performers

Jessica Smith – soprano
Joseph Doody – tenor
Jonathan Midgley – Bass
Andrew Parnell – organ
Lee Dunleavy – Conductor

Huntingdonshire Philharmonic Society

Programme Note

Lovers of French Romantic sacred choral music should save the date Saturday November 2nd, and head to St Mary’s Church in Godmanchester where the Huntingdonshire Philharmonic Choir and Players are performing Requiem by Gabriel Fauré and De Profundis by Marcel Dupré, by candlelight.

Both Fauré and Dupré earned a living as accomplished organists and teachers, in addition to composing.

While the Fauré Requiem is a firm popular favourite work, the Duprè composition is relatively unknown. The first UK performance in its full orchestral version was in Ely Cathedral in May 2001.

It is thought that Fauré composed the Requiem as a musical tribute to his father, who died in 1885, three years before work on the Requiem began. It is a serene and peaceful and non-sombre composition.

Dupré completed De Profundis in 1917, dedicated to the soldiers who died for France in the First World War. The work displays a range of expressive contrasts. The text, in Latin, is Psalm 130, with the addition at the end of the traditional requiem mass responsory ‘Requiem aeternum’ which brings to mind the Fauré.

Tickets are available online (with no additional fees) from www.huntsphil.org.uk and on the door from 7pm.

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