Requiem:
Soprano - Eleanore Cockermore
Baritone - Ross Cumming
Manchester Chamber Choir
Director - Sarah Brandwood-Spencer
Conductor - Ellie Slorach
Ellie Slorach, after Pérotin - Piece for voices and instruments
Gabriel Fauré - Cantique de Jean Racine
Mel Bonis - Choral work
Maurice Ravel - Le Tombeau de Couperin
Gabriel Fauré - Requiem
Tonight’s programme celebrates the rich cultural heritage of France.
Pérotin was a key figure from the beginnings of Western music, producing some of the earliest repertory of polyphonic (multipart) music at Notre-Dame as the cathedral itself was being built. Ellie Slorach reimagines this world with a contemporary twist.
Another talented pioneer, Mélanie Bonis, produced some three hundred inventive compositions despite the challenges of her modest background and gender.
Ravel’s Le Tombeau de Couperin is both a homage to the Baroque composer François Couperin, and a memorial to friends who died during the First World War.
Fauré’s beautiful Cantique de Jean Racine, composed while he was a student in Paris, uses words by the 17th Century dramatist Racine. It is paired with one of the best-loved works in the choral repertory, his Requiem.
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