Join us for an afternoon of glorious music-making in preparation for singing Gabrielle Fauré’s Requiem, composed between 1887 and 1900. This is a gentle, 35 minute choral and organ setting of the Mass for the Dead, led by Anthony Musson, former Director of Chapel Music at the University of Exeter, with organist Matt Clark.

Singers of all voice parts (Soprano, Alto, Tenor, Bass) are warmly invited to Come & Sing with members of St Michael’s choir and associates.

In seven movements, Fauré’s Requiem is scored for soprano and baritone soloists and mixed choir. The final movement In Paradisum is based on a text that is not part of the litugy of the funeral mass, but of the burial.

Movements
i.    Introit et Kyrie
ii.   Offertory
iii.   Sanctus
iv.   Pie Jesu
v.    Agnus Dei
vi.   Libera Me
vii.  In Paradisum

Timings on the day:
2.00pm – Session 1
3.30pm – Break and refreshments
4.00pm – Session 2
5.30pm – Break for robing and walk through
6.00pm – All Soul’s Requiem Mass

Music and refreshments will be provided for all singers with mulled wine after the service.

Find our more about St. Michael’s choir here.

Please email Anthony Musson at mountdinhaminfo@gmail.com if you would like to sing for this service. 

Image: Interior of Église de la Madeleine, where Fauré’s Requiem was first performed.
(Reproduced with permission from Wikimedia Commons, source: here).

St Michael’s Mount Dinham, Dinham Road, Exeter EX4 4EB.