An evening of shared reflection, with the uplifting Fauré’s Requiem alongside a programme of moving chamber music.

Marta Fontanals-Simmons mezzo-soprano
Robert Gildon baritone
Lana Bode piano
Tom Aldren violin
Bethan Lloyd cello
Ed Picton-Turbervill organ
Olivia Jageurs harp
Ben Vonberg-Clark conductor

Music has a unique power to console and uplift, and this concert combines words and music that offer different perspectives on darkness and light, death and life, and our shared hope for healing.

In the first half, we present a programme of reflective chamber music guaranteed to soothe the soul. After the interval Gabriel Fauré’s Requiem – with its focus on eternal rest and consolation – completes the programme.

Programme

Butterworth Loveliest of trees
Fauré Apres un reve
Vaughan Williams Tired
Crumb Let it be forgotten
DeBlasio Walt Whitman in 1989
Finzi Fear no more the heat o’ the sun
Vaughan Williams Menelaus
Arvo Pärt Spiegel im Spiegel
Fauré Requiem