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The Apex
1 Charter Square
Bury St Edmunds
Suffolk
IP33 3FD
England
Programme
Benjamin Britten – Fanfare for St Edmundsbury
Ralph Vaughan Williams – Dona Nobis Pacem (A Cry for Peace)
~ Interval ~
Maurice Duruflé – Requiem, Op.9
Performers
Camilla Jeppeson – soprano
Valerie Reid – mezzo-soprano
Tom Asher – baritone
Philip Reed – Conductor
Bury Bach Choir
Prometheus Orchestra
Programme Note
To commemorate the armistice centenary, Bury Bach Choir and Prometheus Orchestra, conducted by Philip Reed, perform two contrasting masterpieces, both inspired by war.
Vaughan Williams’ epic cantata Dona Nobis Pacemis a heartbreakingly beautiful exploration of the violence of war. Written in 1936 and inspired by the Great War, the work is an urgent plea for peace amidst the growing fears of a new war. In a new orchestration for small orchestra and organ by Jonathan Rathbone, the work includes texts by Walt Whitman and from the book of Jeremiah.
Duruflé’s Requiem, completed in 1947, as the world emerged from the Second World War, is elegiac and ethereal, fusing the spare language of plainsong with sensuous harmonies and melodies.
The concert opens with Benjamin Britten’s complex and fascinating Fanfare for St Edmundsburywritten for the 1959 “Pageant of Magna Carta” in the grounds of St Edmundsbury Cathedral.
