Gabriel Fauré
Requiem
Op. 48
Fauré's Requiem (Op. 48) is one of the most personal and serene settings of the Requiem Mass. Described by the composer as "a lullaby of death," it eschews the drama of the Dies irae (which he largely omits) in favour of gentle consolation. The Pie Jesu, In Paradisum, and Agnus Dei are among the most beautiful pages in the choral literature.
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Movements
Part One - Introit et Kyrie
Part Two - Offertoire
Part Three - Sanctus
Part Four - Pie Jesu - Solo
Part Five - Agnus Dei
Part Six - Libera Me
Part Seven - In Paradisum
Chorus
Chris Webb
Chris Webb is a bass and former choral scholar of Clare College, Cambridge, where he also sang with the University Chamber Choir. Now a lay clerk at Southwark Cathedral, he performs with the Monteverdi Choir, London Voices, Farm Street Singers and Blossom Street, and has sung abroad with the Zürcher Sing-Akademie. His operatic roles include Colline in Puccini's La bohème for Merry Opera Company and Sarastro in Mozart's Magic Flute for Opera Anywhere; he took part in ENO's Opera Works programme in 2016–17 and studies with Alex Ashworth.
Harriet Burns
Harriet Burns is a soprano and scholarship student at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, a Samling Artist and a Wigmore Hall Chamber Tots Ensemble Artist. Graham Johnson selected her as winner of the 2017 Paul Hamburger prize for lieder, and she has won the GSMD Franz-Schubert-Institut competition, reached the semi-finals of Das Lied and been a finalist in the International Student Lied Duo Competition. She coaches the choristers of St Mary Merton and sits on the committee of the Voices of London Festival.
Phillipa Thomas
Phillipa Thomas is a soprano who began in the Cantamus Girls' Choir before reading music at the University of York, where she took an MA, won the University Concerto Prize and became a founder member of Blossom Street. She continued her studies at Birmingham Conservatoire, winning the Conservatoire Singing Prize and placing as a finalist in several competitions. Alongside operatic work she remains active on the London choral scene and continues to sing with Blossom Street.
Robert Jenkins
Robert Jenkins is a tenor who took his BMus (Hons) at Birmingham Conservatoire in 2012, winning the Cecil Drew Oratorio Prize, and spent five years as Tenor Lay Clerk at Birmingham Cathedral. He sings with the BBC Singers, Ex Cathedra, Polyphony, Philharmonia Voices, Siglo de Oro and the Proteus Ensemble, and with the choirs of Westminster Abbey, St Paul's Cathedral, St Martin-in-the-Fields, Chelsea Old Church and Westminster Cathedral. Alongside his choral work he maintains an active solo career and has appeared in a range of operatic roles.
Sebastian Charlesworth
Sebastian Charlesworth is a bass who studied bassoon at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and now performs as a solo and ensemble singer across the UK and internationally. His operatic roles include Orestes in Iphigénie en Tauride, Malatesta in Don Pasquale, Pelléas in Pelléas et Mélisande and Prince Yeletsky in The Queen of Spades, sung with companies such as New Sussex Opera, Surrey Opera, OperaCoast and Opera Danube. He reached the final of the British Music Society Art Song competition at the London Song Festival and records with session groups including Metro Voices and RSVP Voices for film soundtracks.
Vanessa Bowers
Vanessa Bowers is a soprano who studied viola and piano at the Junior Royal Academy of Music before returning to the Academy for a BMus in Vocal Studies. She made her BBC Proms debut as a soloist in Bernstein's MASS with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in 2013 and sang Berio's Coro under Sir Simon Rattle at the 2014 Lucerne Festival. More recently she has performed contemporary and classical repertoire with Det Norske Solistkor in Oslo and Trondheim.
Musical Director
Hilary Campbell
Hilary Campbell is a freelance choral conductor who founded and directs the professional chamber choir Blossom Street, and is Musical Director of Bristol Choral Society, Chiswick Choir and the Music Makers of London. Her guest conducting includes the BBC Symphony Chorus, Trinity Laban Chamber Choir, the BBC Radio 4 Daily Service Singers and the Royal Academy of Music Symphony Chorus, whom she prepared for Mahler's Symphony No. 2 under Semyon Bychkov; she also directed the P&O Ferries Choir to victory in BBC Two's The Choir. She collaborates each year with Judith Weir at the Royal Academy of Music, works as an adjudicator and workshop leader, and is a published, prize-winning composer and founding member of the Voices of London Festival.
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