Name: Duruflé Requiem: London
Start: 2024-03-23T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2024-03-23T00:00:00.000Z
Location: St Martin-in-the-Fields

Organization

Admin

The Sixteen

Conductor

Harry Christophers

Others

The Sixteen Orchestra

St Martin In the Fields

Singer

Mezzo-soprano

Nancy Cole

Baritone

Simon Grant

Instrumentalist

Robert Quinney

Organ

Duruflé Requiem: London

London

United Kingdom

St Martin-in-the-Fields

Duruflé Requiem: London: Cantate pour le 1er Août Martin

Public

Private

Cantate pour le 1er Août

Soir de Neige

Four motets on Gregorian themes Op. 10

Litanies à la Vierge Noire, FP 82

Mass for double choir

Requiem, Op 9

Approved

Gregorian chant blends with the sumptuous sound-world of 20th-Century France in a programme of music by Martin, Poulenc, and Duruflé's much-loved Requiem.
Duruflé’s Requiem was based on the mass of the dead, and dedicated to the memory of his father. The subtle rhythms and fluid lines of Gregorian chant permeate the whole work, personalised by the colours, harmonies, and rhythms of a deeply religious 20th-century musician. Representing the ideas of peace, faith and hope, there is always a sense of movement, of continuing for eternity. The result is a profoundly beautiful, emotionally shattering and wonderfully atmospheric piece that never fails to make an impact.

Complimenting this are Poulenc’s powerful winter lamentation Un soir de neige, and deeply personal Litanies à la Vierge Noire, and the ‘Agnus Dei’ from Martin’s shimmering Mass for Double Choir.

English

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Ensemble