This concert tour celebrates the beauty of our magnificent and awe-inspiring churches, with performances of some of the most well known and uplifting sacred music. The Orchestra and the cathedral choir perform works by Thomas Tallis and Ralph Vaughan Williams, along with a new commission by Gabriel Jackson and Fauré's enduringly popular Requiem. There will also be a chance to hear the cathedral organist. perform French composer Francis Poulenc's grand and masterful Organ Concerto, in the 50th anniversary year of the composer's death.

The Fauré Requiem tour celebrates the beauty of our magnificent and awe-inspiring churches, with performances of some of the most well known and uplifting sacred music. The Orchestra and the cathedral choirs will perform works by Thomas Tallis and Ralph Vaughan Williams, along with a new commission by Gabriel Jackson and Fauré's enduringly popular Requiem. There will also be a chance to hear the cathedral organist perform French composer Francis Poulenc's grand and masterful Organ Concerto, in the 50th anniversary year of the composer's death.

We are delighted to be joined for the concerts by our Principal Conductor and one of the world's leading choral directors, Stephen Layton, who will conduct the cathedral choir in each venue. Stephen will also lead the Come and Sing workshops in Guildford and Liverpool, which offer keen amateur singers a chance to work with one of the choral masters.

Generously supported by Friends of Cathedral Music, Arts Council England, The RVW Trust and The Foyle Foundation .

Programme:

Tallis: Salvator mundi
Tallis: Why fum’th in fight?
Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis
Poulenc: Organ Concerto for Organ, Strings and Timpani in G minor
Gabriel Jackson: Countless and wonderful are the ways to praise God
Fauré: Requiem

Performers:

City of London Sinfonia
Exeter Cathedral Choir
Stephen Layton conductor

City of London Sinfonia (CLS) is one of the UK’s leading professional orchestras, and gives approximately one hundred performances each year in London, throughout the UK and abroad, under the artistic leadership of Stephen Layton and Michael Collins. Founded in 1971 by the late Richard Hickox CBE, we have a reputation for skilfully combined programmes, a commitment to the music of British composers and collaborations with the human voice – always performed with palpable energy and spirit.

Box Office: 01904 658338

Tickets: £10 - £25 adults, children £5 - £12.50, students £5.

www.exeter-cathedral.org.uk