Duruflé Requiem

Name: Duruflé Requiem
Start: 2024-11-09T19:00:00+00:00
Location: Colmore Row, B3 2QB Birmingham, United Kingdom

Schedule

Sat Nov 09 2024 at 07:00 pm

UTC+00:00

Location

Colmore Row, B3 2QB Birmingham, United Kingdom | Birmingham, EN

This concert for Remembrance combines music from England and France which was composed during the world wars of the 20th century. Hubert Parry’s lush double choir setting of words from Psalm 39, the last of his Songs of Farewell, is a plea for certainty and salvation written at a time when his students were being killed and gassed on World War 1’s western front.
Maurice Duruflé’s Requiem was written in response to a commission by the Vichy government during World War 2 but completed after the Allied liberation. It sets most of the traditional Latin text using chants from the Gregorian mass for the dead but accompanies them with lush choral harmony and a famously virtuosic organ part.
The beautiful rendition will be performed by Birmingham Cathedral’s Choir of Girls and Lower Voices.

Doors will open at 1800 with unreserved seating throughout the cathedral. The performance will start promptly at 1900.
Refreshments will be served from our bar before the performance.
Tickets: https://birminghamcathedral.com/event/durufle-requiem/