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Parisian organist Gabriel Fauré wrote his Mass for the Dead in the late 1880s, promising to deliver ‘something different’. His supremely beautiful and enduringly popular Requiem appears to float in its own time and space, with music that radiates reassurance, its clear lines and gentle accompaniments the work of a master craftsman who never wasted a note.

Reena Esmail’s 2020 piece When The Violin uses Thomás Luis de Victoria’s 16th-century motet O Vos Omnes as the focal point. The result is a work that ‘moves through darkness and begins to let those very first slivers of light in’. Sacred music by JS Bach and his pioneering Italian contemporary Isabella Leonarda complete a concert from the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Singers and their Chief Conductor offering solace, inspiration and perfection.

Johann Sebastian Bach: Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied
Isabella Leonarda: Magnificat
Johann Sebastian Bach: Komm, Jesu, komm
Reena Esmail When the Violin
Gabriel Fauré: Requiem

Stephen Farr - organ
´óÏó´«Ã½ Singers
Sofi Jeannin - conductor