John Rutter: Requiem

Join us for an evening of music for autumn and the season of remembrance, with soloists, choir and orchestra. We are performing John Rutter's Requiem, Mark Lawrence’s The Singing Will Never be Done, Janáček's The Lord's Prayer (Otčenáš), Franck's Panis angelicus and Stanford's For, lo, I raise up. Rutter's Requiem is one of the best-loved and most widely performed choral works of the twentieth century. The seven sections form an arch-like meditation on the themes of life and death. The Singing Will Never Be Done was commissioned by our choir at the time of the death of the last veteran of the First World War and we first performed it in 2006. It combines a short narrative on the well-known Christmas Truce, followed by a setting of Siegfried Sassoon’s well known poem, Everyone Sang. Janáček’s setting of The Lord's Prayer is a masterpiece of raw emotion, intimacy, and striking dramatic contrasts. Soloists: Mike Gormley (tenor) with choristers of Bristol Cathedral Choir Organ: Andrew Kirk Harp: Julia Hammersley Percussion: Giorgio Fabrizio Conductor: Paul Walton