Conductor: Peter Gambie

This diverse and evocative selection of works explores themes of nature, reflection, and spirituality, traversing the centuries from the Renaissance through the Romantic period to contemporary compositions. Each piece offers its own unique sound world, capturing the beauty and complexity of both the human voice and the autumn season.

Much of the programme comes from the late romantic period – a time when soundscapes were a little like Monet’s “Lily” paintings. Gentle and evocative music, bringing to mind walks through copper and russet coloured leaves on woodland floors. The quieter dawn period, when the birdsong of spring and summer is fading into distant memory.

We are very fortunate to have the Portuguese composer Duarte Lobo’s Requiem because of the destruction of huge swathes of Portugal in 1755. Much of the country was flattened in the earthquake, firestorms raged and a devastating tsunami followed.

We won’t promise you an earthquake – just the opposite in fact with a programme of soothing beauty.

Read about the composers and the works.

Tickets

£15 from the Havant Music Festival (£5 for under-24s) or on the door.

Programme

Lôbo: Missa pro defunctis – Introit
Rachmaninov: Bogoroditse dyevo
Poulenc: Salve Regina
Rheinberger: Abendlied
Lobo: Missa pro defunctis – Kyrie
Rheinberger: Animae nostra
Brahms: Wo ist ein so herrlich Volk, from Fest and Gedenkspruche, op 109
Lobo: Missa pro defunctis – Sanctus
Bridge: To Autumn
Rheinberger: Meditabor, from 4 Motets, Op133
Lobo: Missa pro defunctis – Offertorium
Lobo: Missa pro defunctis – Agnus Dei
Pearsall: Lay a Garland
Rheinberger: Laudate Dominum, from 4 Motets, Op133