Wexford Festival Singers

Sunday 2nd April 7:30pm at Rowe Street Church, Wexford Adults €20/ Students €10 – Under 12s FreeThe Requiem in C Minor for mixed chorus and orchestra was written in 1816 by Italian composer Luigi Cherubini (1760-1842) and was greatly admired by many other composers. It comprises of seven movements and, unusually, does not feature any vocal soloists. Even more unusually, it features a single stroke of a tam-tam (gong-like instrument) at the start of the Dies Irae. Cherubini’s magnificent Requiem in C minor was composed for the re-entombment of the French monarchs at the Basilica of Saint-Denis, Paris. Cherubini was already much in demand as a composer in the capital cities of Europe, and this Requiem enhanced his reputation considerably. Schumann called it ‘unequalled’, Brahms thought it ‘marvellous’, and Berlioz declared it‘the greatest work of its author’. Beethoven admired the work so much he said it would be his example should he ever write a Requiem of his own; he did not, but Cherubini’s was performed at a Mass for Beethoven shortly after his funeral. The dramatic music vividly expresses the full range of emotions in the text. Please do join us at our new time of Sunday 2nd April, 7:30pm to hear this wonderful and little-performed work with SATB choir of The Wexford Festival Singers joined with the large orchestra of The Dublin Chamber Orchestra in the lovely surroundings and acoustic of Rowe Street Church, Wexford