Chester Music Society Choir

Fauré Requiem Fauré Elegie Rutter Requiem Olivia Hunt soprano Damian O’Keeffe baritone Cathie Bunting violoncello Chester Music Society ChoirElysian Chamber EnsembleGraham Jordan Ellis conductor

Tickets £10, £20, £25 To go direct to the cathedral box office click here Fauré composed his popular Requiem between 1887 and 1890, finishing it in 1900. In seven movements, the work is scored for soprano and baritone soloists, mixed choir, orchestra and organ. Different from typical Requiem settings, the full sequence Dies irae is omitted, replaced by Pie Jesu which is often performed as a soprano solo. The final movement In Paradisum is based on a text that is not part of the liturgy of the funeral Mass but of the burial. Fauré wrote of the work, "Everything I managed to entertain by way of religious illusion I put into my Requiem, which moreover is dominated from beginning to end by a very human feeling of faith in eternal rest." John Rutter needs no introduction…