Festival Orchestra and Chorus

The final concert will open with Gabriel Fauré’s Requiem, with the Festival Chorus, and soloists Sylvie Jensen, soprano; Angela Moser, soprano, and Anders Froehlich, baritone. Fauré wrote of the 1888 work, “Everything I managed to entertain by way of religious illusion I put into my Requiem, which moreover is dominated from beginning to end by a very human feeling of faith in eternal rest.”

After intermission, vocal soloist Sylvie Jensen will sing Ravel’s rich and voluptuous Shéhérazade song cycle. The Festival Chorus will join the orchestra in Ravel’s Daphnis et Chloé Suite No. 2, a choreographic symphony for orchestra and wordless chorus, sometimes described as Ravel’s orchestral masterpiece.