WINTER CONCERT SUNDAY 6TH DECEMBER 2009 AT 7.30PM.

Gabriel Faure's well known and much loved Requiem was last performed by Perth Choral Society in 1996 and that performance was dedicated to the children of Dunblane who were killed in March of that year; this achingly beautiful and evocative work, written in 1888, has a spiritual  depth which has the power to touch the listener with the quietly confident  Christian faith from which it grew.  The prevailing mood is one of peacefulness  and serenity.  Faure himself said of it," My Requiem is said not to express any  sense of terror in the face of death. Someone called it a lullaby of death: but  that's how I feel about death - a happy deliverance, a yearning for the joys of  the afterlife, rather than a painful passing away."

Charles Gounod's Messe Solennelle de Sainte  Cecilia, written in honour of St. Cecilia in 1855, is the second work in our  concert; Gounod, it is said, "took certain liberties with the liturgy in this work" but his aim was to render its spirit in a manner that did honour to the  patron saint of music, St. Cecilia.  The first performance in November 1855, according to the composer Saint-Saens, "caused a sort of stupor.  This  simplicity, this grandeur, this serene light which rose upon the musical world like a dawn troubled people greatly; one felt the approach of a genius and as  everyone knows this is usually badly received.......The luminous rays streamed  forth from this Mass; at first one was dazzled, then charmed, then conquered."

We are very much looking forward to presenting these two works; our soloists are Libby Crabtree,Soprano; Shaun Dixon,Tenor and  Jonathan May, Bass-Baritone; we are accompanied by the Angus Chamber Orchestra and our Director of Music, Peter Rutterford, conducts.

Tickets cost £12 (£10 concessions) and accompanied children are admitted free. 

Please note:  seating for this concert is reserved, so book  early!

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