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A concert to set the mood for the evening’s largely Francophone programme from the Â鶹Éç SO: two generations of Paris’s most influential composers writing for massed voices and creating sonorities that could come from no other country but France. Ravel’s diaphanous vocal writing is interleaved with the richer, darker colours of Franck’s three works. Franck’s offertory, Quae est ista, bursts into life with heart-stopping rapture and glorious melody.