Fauré's Requiem

Hannah Dienes-Williams Soprano
Edward Grint Baritone
Emer McDonough Flute
Suzy Willison-Kawalec Harp
City of London Choir

"Word of the Highest, our only hope, eternal day of earth and the heavens..."

The opening words of Gabriel Fauré's Cantique de Jean Racine evoke this year's theme for the Summer Music in City Churches festival, and his timeless, ethereal setting of the Requiem mass is the first of the three which form the pillars of the festival ("may light perpetual shine upon them"). Both of these much-loved works are performed in the orchestration by Sir John Rutter, alongside his own 'Suite Antique' and a pair of colourful dances by the master of impressionism, Debussy.