Fauré Requiem and other works at St Peter's Church, London on Saturday 13th November 2021

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Fauré Requiem and other works

Add to my Calendar 13-11-2021 19:30 13-11-2021 21:30 36 Fauré Requiem and other works In his austere and moving Requiem, Fauré combines a deep reverence for its subject with great understanding of the text. The piece has an enduring musical simplicity and enjoys a uniquely hallowed position in the pantheon of great choral works. Fauré was a renowned organist and teacher, and his compositions are imbued with an intimacy and subtlety at odds with those of his more vainglorious contemporaries. His is a voice of contemplation and solitude, utterly at ease with itself. The Requiem is in many ways the perfect music for our time.Our concert will feature three of Fauré’s shorter works: the evergreen Cantique de Jean Racine, the less familiar Tantum Ergo op. 55, and a choral arrangement of his seminal Pavane. We will also be performing two works by Lili Boulanger, a prodigiously talented pupil of Fauré, who became the first female composer to win the prestigious Prix de Rome in 1913. Tragically, she suffered ill health throughout her life, and died at the age of just 24.We are delighted to be joined by baritone, Robert Davies and soprano, Alice Gribbin. The accompaniment will be provided by an orchestra of strings, horns, harp, organ and timpani. St Peter's Church, London DD/MM/YYYY

Details

St Peter's Church
Mount Park Road
Ealing
London
W5 2RU
England

Saturday 13th November 2021
7:30 PM

Programme

Lili Boulanger – Pie Jesu
Lili Boulanger – Pour les Funérailles d'un Soldat
Gabriel Fauré – Tantum ergo, Op.55
Gabriel Fauré – Cantique de Jean Racine, Op.11
Gabriel Fauré – Requiem, Op.48 (1883)

Performers

Robert Davies – baritone
Alice Gribbin – soprano
Richard Bannan – Director

Petros Singers

Programme Note

In his austere and moving Requiem, Fauré combines a deep reverence for its subject with great understanding of the text. The piece has an enduring musical simplicity and enjoys a uniquely hallowed position in the pantheon of great choral works. Fauré was a renowned organist and teacher, and his compositions are imbued with an intimacy and subtlety at odds with those of his more vainglorious contemporaries. His is a voice of contemplation and solitude, utterly at ease with itself. The Requiem is in many ways the perfect music for our time.

Our concert will feature three of Fauré’s shorter works: the evergreen Cantique de Jean Racine, the less familiar Tantum Ergo op. 55, and a choral arrangement of his seminal Pavane. We will also be performing two works by Lili Boulanger, a prodigiously talented pupil of Fauré, who became the first female composer to win the prestigious Prix de Rome in 1913. Tragically, she suffered ill health throughout her life, and died at the age of just 24.

We are delighted to be joined by baritone, Robert Davies and soprano, Alice Gribbin. The accompaniment will be provided by an orchestra of strings, horns, harp, organ and timpani.

Monet, The Church at Varengeville, 1882, via Wikimedia Commons

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