Shades of Remembrance

Bath Choral Society
Bristol Ensemble
Madeleine Foster soprano
Craig Bissex baritone
Shean Bowers conductor
Fauré Requiem
Tavener Song for Athene
Parry There is a Country
Elgar They are at Rest
Vaughan Williams Toward the Unknown Region
The principal work of this Autumn concert will be the consoling Fauré Requiem. It will be complemented with Remembrance music including Tavener’s Song for Athene, There is a Country by Parry, Elgar’s They are at Rest and Toward the Unknown Region by Vaughan Williams.
The choir and orchestra will be in the East End with the audience distributed in the East, the South Nave and in the area where the Corporation Stalls previously stood.
The soloists will be the soprano Madeleine Foster (who is a Bath Abbey Chorister) and baritone Craig Bissex.