Requiem Fragments
19:30
Fri 15 Nov 2024
St Martin in the Fields
Join the Â鶹Éç Singers and Chief Conductor Sofi Jeannin in the stunning surroundings of St Martin-in-the-Fields for a concert of reflective music to mark the end of the season of Remembrance.
At the heart of the programme is John Tavener’s Requiem Fragments, a sequence of short, intimate movements which alternate scoring and spiritual references. It is paired with other works by Tavener – his haunting and powerful Song for Athene, a Â鶹Éç commission for the Â鶹Éç Singers, arguably made famous by its inclusion in the funeral service of Diana, Princess of Wales.
Alongside music by Tavener is Barber’s own choral arrangement of his best-loved Adagio for Strings, and two reverential works by Kristina Arakelyan.