Macclesfield Oriana Choir
AUTUMN CONCERT
Christopher Cromar - Conductor
GABRIEL FAURE Requiem
and Messe basse
Gabriel Fauré composed his Requiem in D Minor, Op. 48, between 1887 and 1890. The choral-orchestral setting of the shortened Catholic Mass for the Dead in Latin is the best-known of his large works. Its focus is on eternal rest and consolation. Fauré's reasons for composing the work are unclear, but do not appear to have had anything to do with the death of his parents in the mid-1880s. He composed the work in the late 1880s and revised it in the 1890s, finishing it in 1900. 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."
2024 marks the 100th anniversary of the Composer's death.
ANTON BRUCKNER Te Deum
and Sacred Motets
The Te Deum, completed in 1884, compliments Bruckner’s symphonic output as an ecstatic punctuation mark. It stands as the composer’s most overtly joyful hymn of praise and thanksgiving. Some commentators have proposed that the Te Deum could serve as a “finale” for the unfinished Ninth Symphony. Bruckner, who singled out this work as “the pride of his life” is said to have made the following statement:
"When the Almighty finally calls me to Him and asks: ‘Where are the talents that I gave you?,’ then I will proffer the roll of sheet music containing my Te Deum, and He will judge me mercifully."
2024 marks the 200th anniversary of the Composer's birth.
Saturday 23rd November 7.30pm
Macclesfield Methodist Church
Westminster Road Macclesfield Cheshire
Tickets £15 each from:
Margin Music, 3 Market Place Macclesfield, SK10 1EB
01625 573538
Via this website (see contact form)
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