Guest Conductor Lionel Sow and the BBC Singers join organist Ashley Grote to present an enchanting programme, including Duruflé’s Requiem, at St Martin in the Fields this November.
Guest Conductor Lionel Sow and the BBC Singers join organist Ashley Grote to present an enchanting programme, including Duruflé’s Requiem, at St Martin in the Fields this November.
Maurice Duruflé’s beautiful Requiem – one of the best-loved 20th century choral masterpieces – performed live by the BBC Singers under conductor Lionel Sow.
Imagine a music that seems to exist outside of time. Deep tranquillity and profound emotion fuse to create a single, indefinable feeling, and ancient chants blossom like flowers into rich, shimmering harmonies. But words can’t really describe Maurice Duruflé’s beautiful Requiem: composed just after World War Two, it’s one of those pieces that quietly finds its way into your heart, and stays there forever.
The programme will be interspersed with five short reflections by contemporary women composers.
