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.