The grandeur and sheer spectacle of the Berlioz Te Deum contrasts with the intimacy and familiarity of Faur's Requiem in this tour de force of French choral masterpieces:

Over 900 performers took part in the premiere of Berlioz' lavishly-scored, organ-rich, chorally-supersized setting of the Te Deum, a majestic, at times elemental hymn writ large to'the eternal hopes and fears of the human race'. Its first performance provoked wild enthusiasm and'tears that flowed like a river'. Tonight's performance is writ larger than usual, including two movements often omitted. Cementing the French connection and forging a liturgical entente cordiale is Faur's altogether more intimate and reassuring Requiem - a'lullaby of death' discharged in the reposeful resignation of the beguiling'In Paradisum'.

This will be a repeat of a 24 March performance at Gloucester Cathedral.

Saturday 31 March 2012, 7.30pm

Colston Hall, Bristol

Berlioz: Te Deum

Faur : Requiem

Bristol Choral Society

Gloucester Choral Society

Choristers of Bristol and Gloucester Cathedral Choirs

Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra

Ashley Grote - Organ

Adrian Partington - Conductor

Hannah Atherton - Soprano

Paul Charles Clarke - Tenor

Richard Walshe - Bass

Tickets: £23, £19, £15, £12, £10 (Under 25s £5, concessions available) from the Colston Hall: 0117 922 3686 or book online: http://www.colstonhall.org/whatson/Event2587

http://www.bristolchoral.co.uk

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