Fauré Requiem. Please come and join us for an evening of sublime music from Gabriel Fauré, Jean Philippe Rameau and César Franck.
Saturday 28th March 2026
St Mary’s Church Fordingbridge SP6 1BB
7.00 PM
Tickets
Including a free drink during the interval
£15.00 advance booking
£18 at the door
Free for 18s and under
Tickets will be available from Caxton Decor 26-30 Salisbury Street, Fordingbridge SP6 1AF or online at ticketsource.co.uk/fordingbridgechoral.
Contact
Call our Secretary for more information on 01425 656348
Visit our Facebook page at facebook.com/fordingbridgechoralsociety
We are a registered charity no 1199533
This spring we offer you the chance to spend an evening surrounded by some of the most enchanting, beautiful and serene works by three of the finest French composers of the 18th and 19th centuries.
Our centrepiece, the Fauré Requiem, is the grandest of his works for chorus and orchestra and one of his most popular. The Requiem is at the same time a piece of rapturous beauty, reverence, assertiveness and calm. We also perform his early masterpiece ‘Cantique de Jean Racine’, the choral version of the ‘Pavane’ and ‘Tantum Ergo’.
Our other pieces include César Franck’s much loved ‘Panis Angelicus’ and two works by Jean Philippe Rameau, the ‘Laboravi Clamans’ and ‘La Nuit’.
As usual we are accompanied by the Edwards Ensemble led by Marcus Broome, Graham Scott at the organ and we are once again joined by the sublime singing of Amy Carson (soprano) and Timothy Dickinson (bass).
For the first time this year, our Music Director Nigel Edwards will give a pre-concert talk which is included in your ticket price. The subject of the talk will be ‘Fauré – his life, his contemporaries and the Requiem’. Nigel has a huge knowledge of his subject, having lived and worked with music from a young age. He is also very entertaining to listen to! We do hope you will take advantage of this opportunity to gain some context of the wonderful music you are about to hear.