Brighton Festival Chorus
Brighton Festival Youth Choir
London Concert Orchestra
James Morgan
Conductor
Jonathan Brown
Baritone
Tavener
Invocations and Last Word (London Première)
Fauré
Ave Verum
Duruflé
Ubi Caritas
Coulais
Caresse sur l'ocean
Villette
Hymne a la vierge
Messaien
O sacrum convivium
Fauré
Cantique de Jean Racine
Traditional
Quelle est cette odeur
Fauré
Requiem

Fauré’s beautiful, meditative Requiem and motets by Fauré, Villette and Duruflé are performed alongside the London première of Tavener’s Invocations and Last Word, written for four choirs, one placed in each corner of the building.

2019 has seen Brighton Festival Chorus record in Abbey Road Studios with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, join together with Brighton Festival Youth Choir to present Britten’s Saint Nicholas, and close out the Brighton Festival in an acclaimed performance of Tippett’s great oratorio A Child Of Our Time with the Philharmonia Orchestra.