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Portsmouth Choral Union perform Durufle Requiem
Also in the programme Anthems by Parry, Elgar, Handel and Mendelssohn
Add to my Calendar 25-05-2024 17:30 25-05-2024 19:30 36 Portsmouth Choral Union perform Durufle Requiem The Requiem, op. 9, by Maurice Duruflé was commissioned in 1947 and is written in memory of the composer’s father. At the time of commission, Duruflé was working on an organ suite using themes from Gregorian chants. He incorporated his sketches for that work into the Requiem, which uses numerous themes from the Gregorian “Mass for the Dead.” Nearly all the thematic material in the work comes from chant.Maurice Duruflé’s haunting Requiem – one of the most beautiful of 20th century choral masterpieces – Amid the terrors of wartime France, Maurice Duruflé imagined a music that seemed to exist outside of time, to be of profound beauty and in which ancient chants blossomed, into melodies that sink quietly into your soul. St Mary's Church, Portsmouth DD/MM/YYYYDetails
St Mary's Church
Fratton Road
Portsmouth
Hampshire
PO1 5PA
England
Programme
Edward Elgar – Give unto the Lord, Op.74
Felix Mendelssohn – Hear My Prayer, WoO 15
George Frideric Handel – Zadok the Priest, HWV 258
Charles Hubert Hastings Parry – I Was Glad
Performers
David Gostick – Conductor
Ian Richardson – organ / piano
Faye Eldret – soprano
Portsmouth Choral Union
Programme Note
The Requiem, op. 9, by Maurice Duruflé was commissioned in 1947 and is written in memory of the composer’s father. At the time of commission, Duruflé was working on an organ suite using themes from Gregorian chants. He incorporated his sketches for that work into the Requiem, which uses numerous themes from the Gregorian “Mass for the Dead.” Nearly all the thematic material in the work comes from chant.
Maurice Duruflé’s haunting Requiem – one of the most beautiful of 20th century choral masterpieces – Amid the terrors of wartime France, Maurice Duruflé imagined a music that seemed to exist outside of time, to be of profound beauty and in which ancient chants blossomed, into melodies that sink quietly into your soul.
