The Chorus is pleased to be closing the Classical Sheffield Festival Weekend 2025 with a programme featuring two world premieres and Fauré’s beautiful Requiem in the wonderful acoustic of St Marie’s cathedral, Sheffield.
The first half will feature three new compositions by composer and broadcaster Stephen Johnson; “The Miracle Tree”, “This going hence” and “to wed again”. The first half will conclude with the world premiere of the winning works from the Stella Jockel Young Composer Competition. Set up by the Chorus in 2022, the competition is open to young people from Sheffield and is funded by a generous legacy bequeathed by Stella, who sang alto with the choir for many years before her death in 2019.
The second half features Gabriel Fauré’s much-loved Requiem, composed between 1887 and 1890. Fauré was extremely pleased with this 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.”
