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Saturday 18 January 2025, St George’s Church, London Road, Poynton
9.30 am registration, 6:00 pm concert
Luigi Cherubini
Requiem in C minor
Italian-born Luigi Cherubini moved to Paris aged 27 and lived there for the rest of his life, achieving enormous success as an opera composer before turning to religious music. His Requiem in C minor was first performed in 1817 at a memorial service to commemorate the 24th anniver-sary of the execution of Louis XVI at the hands of the French Revolutionaries. In the 19th century his Requiem was regarded as on a par with Mozart’s, but by the end of the century Cherubini was out of favour and the piece forgotten. A work of great beauty, with dramatic moments balanced by reflective passages, it is a joy to sing, and ideal for a Singing Day.
£25 to sing (including music), £5 students, £5 audience
For further details and to book a place please email the forms to our Singing Day coordinator Gillian Banks at:
stgeorgessingingday@gmail.com
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Pieces performed at previous Singing Days:
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2024 - Ethel Smyth Mass in D
2023- Music for Royal Occasions
2022 - Stravinsky Symphony of Psalms
2020 - Rutter Requiem
2019 - Gounod St Cecilia Mass
2018 - Haydn's The Creation
2017 - Vivaldi Gloria and Magnificat
2016 - Mendelssohn's Elijah (part 1)
2015 - Mozart's Coronation Mass and Haydn's Te Deum for Empress Marie Thérèse
2014 - Beethoven's Mass in C Major
2013 - Puccini's Messa di Gloria
2012 - Mozart's Requiem
2011 - Haydn's Nelson Mass
2010 - Dvořák's Mass in D and Kodály's Pange Lingua
2009 - Rossini's Petite Messe Solennelle
2008 - Brahms' German Requiem
2007 - Orff's Carmina Burana
2006 - Mozart's Coronation Mass, K317, and the Solemn Vespers, K339
2005 - Music by Elgar, Finzi, Gibbons, Morley, Pearsall, Stanford and Vaughan Williams
2004 - Purcell's Fairy Queen
2003 - Fauré's Requiem, Cantique de Jean Racine and Madrigal, and Saint-Saëns' Calme des Nuits
2002 - Purcell's Dido and Aeneas
2001 - Purcell's King Arthur
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