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Sacred Choral Music: Duruflé’s Requiem

Organist Ashley Grote joins conductor Lionel Sow and the BBC Singers for a concert of sacred choral music including Duruflé's Requiem, from St Martin-in-the-Fields, London.

Maurice Duruflé’s beautiful Requiem – one of the best-loved of 20th-century choral masterpieces – performed live by the BBC Singers under conductor Lionel Sow.

Imagine a music that seems to exist outside of time. Deep tranquillity and profound emotion fuse to create a single, indefinable feeling, and ancient chants blossom like flowers into rich, shimmering harmonies. But words can’t really describe Maurice Duruflé’s beautiful Requiem: composed just after World War II, it’s one of those pieces that quietly finds its way into your heart, and stays there forever.

Recorded at St. Martin-in-the-Fields, London on 4 November 2022. Presented by Ian Skelly.

1930:
Harris – Faire is the Heaven
Helen Neeves – Pan (world premiere)
Vaughan Williams – Serenade to Music
Becky McGlade – To a Skylark
Harris – Bring us, O Lord God
Lucy Walker – O sacrum convivium
Sarah Quartel – God with me
Tavener – Song for Athene

2040: Interval

2100:
Duruflé – Notre Pere
Duruflé – Requiem

2 hours, 28 minutes

Last on

Thu 10 Nov 202219:30
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • William Henry Harris

    Faire is the heaven

    Choir: BBC Singers. Conductor: Lionel Sow.

  • Helen Neeves

    Pan

    Performer: Ashley Grote. Choir: BBC Singers. Conductor: Lionel Sow.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Serenade to Music

    Performer: Ashley Grote. Choir: BBC Singers. Conductor: Lionel Sow.

  • Lucy Walker

    O sacrum convivium

    Choir: BBC Singers. Conductor: Lionel Sow.

  • Becky McGlade

    To a skylark

    Choir: BBC Singers. Conductor: Lionel Sow.

  • Sarah Quartel

    God with me

    Choir: BBC Singers. Conductor: Lionel Sow.

  • William Henry Harris

    Bring us, O Lord God

    Choir: BBC Singers. Conductor: Lionel Sow.

  • John Tavener

    Song for Athene

    Choir: BBC Singers. Conductor: Lionel Sow.

  • Francis Poulenc

    Les Biches Suite

    Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Bernard Haitink.
    • Q Disc.

  • Maurice Duruflé

    Notre Père

    Choir: BBC Singers. Conductor: Lionel Sow.

  • Maurice Duruflé

    Requiem

    Performer: Ashley Grote. Choir: BBC Singers. Conductor: Lionel Sow.

  • Jimmy Rowles

    The Peacocks

    Performer: Guy Barker. Music Arranger: Colin Towns. Orchestra: London Metropolitan Orchestra.
    • What Love Is.
    • Polygram.
    • 1.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Trumpet Concerto

    Performer: Simon Höfele. Orchestra: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Duncan Ward.
    • Simon Hofele - Standards.
    • BERLIN CLASSICS.
    • 1.

  • Carl Sigman

    Crazy She Calls Me

    Performer: Guy Barker. Music Arranger: Colin William Towns. Orchestra: London Metropolitan Orchestra.
    • What Love Is.
    • Polygram.
    • 5.

Broadcast

  • Thu 10 Nov 202219:30
    BBC Radio 3