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SUMMARY:Sheringham & Cromer Choral Society concert: Faure & Vierne
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DESCRIPTION:From the website of Sheringham and Cromer Choral Society:\n\n
 ‘A programme of glorious French music by Gabriel Fauré and Louis Vierne
 . We are delighted to be joined by two local students as our soloists: Att
 ia Law\, our soprano soloist\, is a pupil at Sheringham High School and al
 so a member of the North Norfolk Youth Chorus based at Sheringham Little T
 heatre. Jack Woodward\, a student at Cromer Academy will be the Baritone s
 oloist.\n\nOne of the most popular works in the choral repertoire\, first 
 performed in 1888\, Fauré wrote of his Requiem\, “Everything I managed 
 to entertain by way of religious illusion I put into my Requiem\, which mo
 reover is dominated from beginning to end by a very human feeling of faith
  in eternal rest.”\n\nFauré was a precociously brilliant composer. By h
 is late teens\, he had already developed his own unique and utterly assure
 d musical voice. Nowhere is this better demonstrated than in his Cantique 
 de Jean Racine. Composed in 1865\, when Fauré was just twenty\, it’s ve
 ry much a precursor to the Requiem\, with similarly lush\, intense choral 
 writing layered on top of sparse organ accompaniment. As with the Requiem\
 , it takes a religious text as its inspiration – in this case\, words by
  the French playwright Jean Racine.\n\nLouis Vierne is best known for his 
 organ works. However his Messe Solennelle\, which was first performed at S
 aint-Sulpice in Paris in December 1901\, is a wonderful choral piece. Alth
 ough originally scored for two pipe organs\, it was later adapted for a si
 ngle organ\, as most churches could not provide two such instruments.\n\nO
 ur image shows the great organ at Saint-Sulpice\, where the mass was first
  performed.\n\nRepertoire\n\nMesse Solennelle – Louis Vierne\n\nCantique
  de Jean Racine – Gabriel Urbain Fauré\n\nRequiem – Gabriel Urbain Fa
 uré’\n\nTickets £15 (under 18’s Free) available from box office at S
 heringham Little Theatre 01263 822347.
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LOCATION:Sheringham: St Peter
URL:https://www.achurchnearyou.com/church/10042/service-and-events/events/
 1040131/
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