Mood Music ; Christopher Morley Looks at the Highlights of a Busy Week Ahead in the Region's Classical Calendar

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Symphony Hall will be the venue for a variety of moods, some of them sombre and thought-provoking, some of them optimistic and life- enhancing, this weekend A particularly interesting programme from the City of Birmingham Choir on Saturday brings a piquant pairing of two religious pieces written by composers very different in their attitudes to Christianity.

Gabriel Faure composed his well-loved Requiem in 1886, soon after the death of his father. In it he expresses a profound sense of acceptance and ultimate calm "In Paradisum", but deliberately avoids accentuating any sense of judgment, damnation and eventual glory.

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Mood Music ; Christopher Morley Looks at the Highlights of a Busy Week Ahead in the Region's Classical Calendar

This is a vision of tranquillity for all, believer and non- believer alike, and it is ironic that this composer of one of the greatest requiems ever written, as well as smaller pieces of church music, and an active church organist, sho...

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