Duruflé Requiem / Thierry Escaich
Friday 6th November 2009 - 8pm - Exeter College, Oxford
Schola Cantorum launches its 50th Anniversary Season in Oxford with a concert not to be missed.
The choir will perform Duruflé's Requiem alongside a set of works by the composer Thierry Escaich, who succeeded Maurice Duruflé as Professor of composition and improvisation at the Conservatoire in Paris and in 1997 as organist at St-Etienne-du-Mont church. Mr Escaich will perform one of his own compositions for organ and improvise on the Gregorian themes running through both the Requiem and his own compositions.
This is a unique opportunity to hear one of the leading lights in the rich French organ tradition perform his own works, as well as hearing Schola perform a much-loved piece within this tradition.
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