Fauré: Requiem and Mozart: Solemn Vespers
A major choral concert opening Worcester Festival Choral Society's 160th season
Part of the Worcester Festival Choral Society 2021-22 Season
Add to my Calendar 27-11-2021 19:30 27-11-2021 21:30 36 Fauré: Requiem and Mozart: Solemn Vespers Worcester Festival Choral Society is delighted to open its 160th concert season with a stunning programme of much-loved choral and orchestral works by Mozart and Fauré. From the lively overture to Mozart’s opera The Magic Flute and the divine choral harmonies of his Solemn Vespers, to the beauty of Fauré’s Cantique de Jean Racine and the glorious melodies of his Requiem mass, this is a long-awaited, major concert not to be missed. Appearing alongside the 150 voices of Worcester Festival Choral Society will be four, internationally acclaimed soloists. Conducted by director of music Samuel Hudson, and accompanied by the superb Meridian Sinfonia orchestra, the concert’s magnificent setting of Worcester Cathedral adds the perfect finishing touch. Worcester Cathedral, Worcester DD/MM/YYYYDetails
Worcester Cathedral
8 College Yard
Worcester
Worcestershire
WR1 2LA
England
Programme
Gabriel Fauré – Requiem, Op.48 (1883)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – The Magic Flute: Overture
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Vesperae solennes de confessore, K.339
Gabriel Fauré – Cantique de Jean Racine, Op.11
Performers
Emilia Morton – soprano
Cathy Bell – mezzo-soprano
Frederick Jones – Tenor
Julien Van Mellaerts – baritone
Samuel Hudson – Conductor
Worcester Festival Choral Society
Meridian Sinfonia
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Programme Note
Worcester Festival Choral Society is delighted to open its 160th concert season with a stunning programme of much-loved choral and orchestral works by Mozart and Fauré.
From the lively overture to Mozart’s opera The Magic Flute and the divine choral harmonies of his Solemn Vespers, to the beauty of Fauré’s Cantique de Jean Racine and the glorious melodies of his Requiem mass, this is a long-awaited, major concert not to be missed.
Appearing alongside the 150 voices of Worcester Festival Choral Society will be four, internationally acclaimed soloists. Conducted by director of music Samuel Hudson, and accompanied by the superb Meridian Sinfonia orchestra, the concert’s magnificent setting of Worcester Cathedral adds the perfect finishing touch.