Concert Details

Sat 13 March 2027, 7:30pm
St Andrew’s Hall – Venue details

Fauré: Requiem
Poulenc: Gloria
Chausson: Vivianne
Lili Boulanger: D’un matin de printemps

Soloists tbc
Norwich Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus
conducted by Matthew Andrews and Ashley Grote

Our March concert features two magnificent works for choir and orchestra: Fauré’s Requiem and Poulenc’s Gloria. The sumptuous mellowness of Gabriel Fauré’s romantic sound world of the late 1880s is contrasted with the vivid colours of Francis Poulenc’s response to a commission from the Koussevitsky Foundation in 1959.

The programme is completed by two short and rarely heard orchestral works. Lili Boulanger’s uplifting D’un matin de printemps (spring morning) was composed in 1918, the final year of her short life, and has distinct echoes of Debussy. Dating from the same decade as the Fauré Requiem, Ernest Chausson’s tone poem portrays a romantic tale from Arthurian legend, the fairy Viviane’s affair with Merlin the wizard.

Tickets priced from £26 to £15 (£13 to £8 for students/under 26) are available online at www.ticketsource.co.uk/norwichphil