Fauré Requiem

As summer beckons, the Royal Choral Society presents a programme of spring warmth and contemplation. Alongside Fauré’s Cantique de Jean Racine and his Requiem – surely one of the best loved in the choral repertoire (and performed in 2024 to mark the centenary of the composer’s death) – the choir will sing An Oxford Elegy, Vaughan Williams’ poignant tapestry of music interweaved with Matthew Arnold’s poetry, which touchingly evokes high Midsummer, musk carnations, gold-dusted snapdragon and ‘that sweet city with her dreaming spires’.

The Royal Choral Society will be accompanied by the London Mozart Players who will perform Copland’s Appalachian Spring, providing an upbeat contrast and some introspective tranquillity to complement the choral music.