The French Connection

Chester Music Society

THE FRENCH CONNECTION
Gounod St Cecilia Mass
Fauré Cantique de Jean Racine
Fauré Ave verum corpus
Franck Panis Angelicus
Franck Psalm 150
Soloists from the Royal Northern College of Music
Chester Music Society Choir
Graham Eccles organ
Graham Jordan Ellis conductor
Towards the end of the romantic era the 'classical' styles of the great Austrian and German composers were gradually overtaken by a more impressionistic style typified by a new generation of musicians from France. Join the Society Choir for performances of late 19th century atmospheric French music: four ever-popular and well-known pieces by Gabriel Fauré and César Franck and the St Cecilia Mass of Charles Gounod.
“This simplicity, this grandeur, this serene light which rose before the musical world like a breaking dawn”: Saint-Saens