Petros Singers To Perform Faure Requiem
Soloists Robert Davies and Alice Gribbin in concert at St Peter's Church
St Peter's Church, Ealing. Picture: John Salmon
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Petros Singers will be performing Faure’s austere and moving Requiem with soloists, Robert Davies and Alice Gribbin, and orchestra.
The concert will also feature other, shorter works by Fauré, as well as by Lili Boulanger, his ‘prodigiously talented’ pupil.
It takes place at 7.30pm on Saturday 13 November at St Peter's Church, Mount Park Road, Ealing (W5 2RU)
The Petros Singers say, “In his austere and moving Requiem, Fauré combines a deep reverence for its subject with great understanding of the text. The piece has an enduring musical simplicity and enjoys a uniquely hallowed position in the pantheon of great choral works. Fauré was a renowned organist and teacher, and his compositions are imbued with an intimacy and subtlety at odds with those of his more vainglorious contemporaries. His is a voice of contemplation and solitude, utterly at ease with itself. The Requiem is in many ways the perfect music for our time.”
The concert will also feature three of Fauré’s shorter works: the Cantique de Jean Racine, the less familiar Tantum Ergo op. 55, and a choral arrangement of his seminal Pavane. The group will also be performing two works by Lili Boulanger who became the first female composer to win the prestigious Prix de Rome in 1913. She suffered ill health throughout her life, and died at the age of just 24.
Following his debut with Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Robert Davies has established a career as one of the leading baritones in the country, performing at the Opéra Comique in Paris, the BBC Proms, English Touring Opera and the Edinburgh International Festival.
Since graduating from Oxford University, Alice Gribbin is described as one of the country’s leading consort singers, performing regularly with The Tallis Scholars, as a member of the BBC Singers, and as a soloist throughout Europe and the United States.
The accompaniment will be provided by an orchestra of strings, horns, harp, organ and timpani.
Tickets cost £17 (£15 for concessions) with under 28s being charged only £5. Tickets can be purchased in advance or on the door.
Full details and ticket bookings can be found on Petros Singers’ website.
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November 3, 2021
