Berlioz: Te Deum
Fauré: Requiem

Bristol Choral Society
Gloucester Choral Society
Choristers of Bristol and Gloucester Cathedral Choirs
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
Adrian Partington - Conductor

Hannah Atherton - Soprano
Paul Charles Clarke - Tenor
Richard Walshe - Bass


The grandeur and sheer spectacle of the Berlioz Te Deum contrasts with the intimacy and familiarity of Fauré’s Requiem in this tour de force of French choral masterpieces:

Over 900 performers took part in the premiere of Berlioz’ lavishly-scored, organ-rich, chorally-supersized setting of the Te Deum, a majestic, at times elemental hymn writ large to ‘the eternal hopes and fears of the human race’. Its first performance provoked wild enthusiasm and ‘tears that flowed like a river’. Tonight’s performance is writ larger than usual, including two movements often omitted. Cementing the French connection and forging a liturgical entente cordiale is Fauré’s altogether more intimate and reassuring Requiem - a ‘lullaby of death’ discharged in the reposeful resignation of the beguiling ‘In Paradisum’.
This will be a repeat of a 24 March performance at Gloucester Cathedral.


Tickets: £23, £19, £15, £12, £10 (Under 25s £5, concessions available) from the Colston Hall: 0117 922 3686 or book online: http://www.colstonhall.org/whatson/Event2587

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