King’s Lynn Festival Chorus starting new season with concert performing Rutter’s Feel the Spirit and Fauré’s Requiem at St Nicholas’ Chapel

A town’s festival chorus is set to kickstart its new season with a concert next week.

King’s Lynn Festival Chorus opens its 2024/25 season on Saturday, November 23 at St Nicholas’ Chapel in Lynn with Rutter’s Feel the Spirit and Fauré’s Requiem in the year that marks the centenary of the composer’s death.

Both works in the programme trace a journey from earthly vulnerability to the joy and promise of what may lie beyond.

Fauré’s celebrated Requiem dispels the terrors of the day of judgement to make way for celestial ecstasy.

Far from the fire and brimstone of Verdi’s or even Mozart’s Requiem, Fauré himself described the work as being “dominated from beginning to end by a very human feeling of faith in eternal rest.”

The composer died on November 4, 1924, and KLFC is pleased to be marking this important anniversary.

By musical contrast and drawing on the colourful tradition of the American spiritual, celebrated British composer John Rutter’s Feel the Spirit is packed with vibrant rhythmic energy.

Whether by the melancholic siren call of ‘Steal away’ or the march to glory of ‘Oh when the saints’, the work is sure to move you physically if not spiritually.

With their music director Ben Horden on the podium, the chorus is joined by the British Sinfonietta, who make a welcome return.

The event will start at 7pm and tickets are now on sale and available from the Alive Corn Exchange Box Office on 01553 764864 or www.kingslynncornexchange.co.uk

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