Wagner: Siegfried Idyll
Schreker: Chamber Symphony
Fauré: Requiem

Robin Ticciati: conductor; Carolyn Sampson: soprano; Neal Davies: bass baritone; SCO Chorus

‘...A very human feeling of faith in eternal rest’, was what Fauré hoped to capture in his Requiem. He hated the fire and brimstone settings, and in movements such as the famous ‘Pie Jesu’ he communicates a precious air of peace and consolation instead. Ticciati brings it together with Wagner’s touching love token and a beautiful rarity from the time of World War I. Schreker belonged to the world of Mahler, Strauss and Korngold. He mostly wrote opera, and this chamber symphony has a theatrical, lyrical sweep to it. If his name is unfamiliar that could be because, like to many musicians, he was persecuted by the Nazis and fell into obscurity.

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PLEASE NOTE This event takes place at the Usher Hall, Lothian Road, Edinburgh EH1 2EA.
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