{"id":1924,"date":"2025-06-25T15:27:51","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T14:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chordiality.com\/?p=1924"},"modified":"2025-06-30T22:07:53","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T21:07:53","slug":"chordiality-perform-faure-requiem-with-the-national-festival-orchestra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chordiality.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/25\/chordiality-perform-faure-requiem-with-the-national-festival-orchestra\/","title":{"rendered":"Chordiality perform the Faur\u00e9 Requiem with the National Festival Orchestra"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>With only a couple of weeks to go to its summer gala concert \u2013 Bradford Cathedral, Saturday 12 July \u2013 the choir is putting the finishing touches to a fabulous programme of choral favourites \u2013 <strong>see the full programme below<\/strong>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"457\" height=\"201\" src=\"https:\/\/chordiality.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Book-now-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1933\" style=\"width:371px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chordiality.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Book-now-1.jpg 457w, https:\/\/chordiality.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Book-now-1-300x132.jpg 300w, https:\/\/chordiality.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Book-now-1-24x11.jpg 24w, https:\/\/chordiality.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Book-now-1-36x16.jpg 36w, https:\/\/chordiality.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Book-now-1-48x21.jpg 48w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 457px) 100vw, 457px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Chordiality will be joined on the evening by the National Festival Orchestra and by the Cathedral Organist and Musical Director Graham Thorpe and flute soloist Rosie Walsh.&nbsp; The accompanist will be Helen Orme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The centrepiece at the concert will be Gabriel Faur\u00e9\u2019s much-loved <em>Requiem Mass<\/em>.&nbsp; Voted 19<sup>th<\/sup> out of 300 in the Classic FM <em>Hall of Fame<\/em>, the <em>Requiem<\/em> encompasses some of the most beautiful melodies that Faur\u00e9 ever composed.&nbsp; Far from sombre, Faur\u00e9\u2019s composition is noted for its uplifting warmth and subtlety.&nbsp; In the composer\u2019s own words, the piece embraces \u201ca happy deliverance\u201d and \u201can aspiration towards happiness above\u201d.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <em>Requiem<\/em> will be performed alongside another Faur\u00e9 favourite, <em>Cantique De Jean Racine<\/em>, a piece that he composed for a competition, which he won, at the age of nineteen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The full programme at Chordiality\u2019s Cathedral concert will be:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Cantique De Jean Racine <em>(Gabriel <\/em><em>Faur<\/em><em>\u00e9)<\/em> \u2013 orchestra, organ and choir<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Meditation on Bach\u2019s Prelude in C <em>(Charles Francois Gounod)<\/em> \u2013 violin and piano<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Requiem <em>(Gabriel <\/em><em>Faur<\/em><em>\u00e9)<\/em> \u2013 orchestra, organ and choir<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Interval &#8211; refreshments available<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The Heavens Are Telling <em>(Joseph Haydn)<\/em> \u2013 orchestra, organ and choir<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The Rose <em>(Ola Gjeilo)<\/em> \u2013 choir and piano<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Caccini\u2019s Ave Maria <em>(Vladimir Vavilov arr Patrick Leibergen)<\/em> \u2013 choir, piano and flute<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>For The Beauty Of The Earth <em>(John Rutter)<\/em> \u2013 orchestra and choir<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Every Time I Feel The Spirit <em>(Trad arr Iain Farrington)<\/em> \u2013 organ<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Total Praise <em>(Richard Smallwood arr Dave Williamson)<\/em> \u2013 choir and piano<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Sing Gently <em>(Eric Whitacre)<\/em> \u2013 choir piano<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves <em>(Guiseppe Verdi)<\/em> \u2013 orchestra, organ and choir<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Sarabande <em>(George Frideric Handel)<\/em> \u2013 orchestra and organ<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Worthy Is The Lamb and Amen Chorus <em>(George Frideric Handel)<\/em> \u2013 orchestra, organ and choir<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>There will be a \u2018bucket collection\u2019 at the concert for Bradford Metropolitan Food Bank, which is the choir\u2019s current adopted charity.&nbsp; The Food Bank is a non-denominational organisation, which distributes donated food bags to organisations working with vulnerable people in need of food.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>To reserve your seats for the concert, tickets \u00a318, phone 07949 696064, email chordiality.choir@hotmail.com or book online at www.ticketsource.co.uk\/chordiality.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With only a couple of weeks to go to its summer gala concert \u2013 Bradford Cathedral, Saturday 12 July \u2013 the choir is putting the finishing touches to a fabulous programme of choral favourites \u2013 see the full programme below.&nbsp; Chordiality will be joined on the evening by the National Festival Orchestra and by the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/chordiality.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/25\/chordiality-perform-faure-requiem-with-the-national-festival-orchestra\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Chordiality perform the Faur\u00e9 Requiem with the National Festival Orchestra<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","eb_css":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-1924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chordiality.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chordiality.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chordiality.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chordiality.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chordiality.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1924"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/chordiality.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1941,"href":"https:\/\/chordiality.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1924\/revisions\/1941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chordiality.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chordiality.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chordiality.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1924"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chordiality.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=1924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}