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Fauré’s Requiem – Solace and Sustenance

BBC Singers

,Milton Court Concert Hall
An image of Sofi Jeannin conducting, with BBC Singers branding around her

Choral music spanning six centuries reflects on sorrow, darkness and grief – and the consoling light that glows deep within us all.

Human voices offer a warm embrace in times of sorrow. 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 J S Bach and his pioneering Italian contemporary Isabella Leonarda complete a concert from the BBC Singers and their Chief Conductor offering solace, inspiration and perfection.

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This performance will end at approximately 9.30pm, including a 20 minute interval.

Produced by the BBC Singers

Programme

  • Johannes Sebastian Bach   Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied
  • Isabella Leonarda   Magnificat
  • Johannes Sebastian Bach   Komm, Jesu, komm
  • Reena Esmail   When the Violin (incorporating Tomás Luis de Victoria O vos omnes)
  • Gabriel Fauré   Requiem

Performers

  • BBC Singers  
  • Sofi Jeannin   conductor

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Milton Court Concert Hall

Location
Milton Court Concert Hall is located within the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and is approximately a 5 minute walk from the Barbican entrance on Silk Street.  

Address
Milton Court
Silk St, London
EC2Y 9BH

Nearby public transport
We are within walking distance from a number of London Underground stations, the closest being Barbican, Old Street, St Paul’s and Moorgate. The nearest train stations are Liverpool Street and Farringdon. Bus Route 153 runs directly past the Barbican along Chiswell Street

Car and bicycle parking
We have free bicycle spaces and paid car parking spaces available