Remembrance: Fauré’s Requiem | Britten Pears Arts

Our community comes together for an evening of shared reflection, with the uplifting Fauré’s Requiem alongside a programme of moving chamber music.

Scratch Choir
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

Butterworth:: Loveliest of trees (5')
Fauré:: Apres un reve (3')
Vaughan Williams:: Tired (3')
Crumb:: Let it be forgotten (3')
DeBlasio:: Walt Whitman in 1989 (4')
Finzi:: Fear no more the heat o’ the sun (5’)
Vaughan Williams:: Menelaus (5')
Arvo Pärt:: Spiegel im Spiegel (10')
Fauré:: Requiem (40')

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.

This performance adds to the work we are doing at Britten Pears Arts to contribute to compassionate communities, in relation to end of life, grief and loss.

Download programme notes.