Immersive Fauré Requiem (from memory) with Roderick Williams

2014–2024 – Epiphoni celebrates a decade of music-making and friendship with a concert spectacular featuring special guest soloists Roderick Williams and Hilary Cronin.

Additional soloists now confirmed: Felicity Hayward, Helen Stanley and Ben Vonberg-Clark.

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Come and hear the Fauré Requiem like you’ve never heard (or seen) it before – from memory and with movement, lighting and projections using the full space and experience of Battersea Arts Centre’s Grand Hall.

The programme will feature two pieces of note in relation to our first year:

Richard Strauss’s Deutsche Motette – the large-scale choral work in 16 voice parts and with a quartet of soloists that we sang at our official launch at St John’s Smith Square in September 2014.

A setting of “Everyone Sang” – the Seigfried Sassoon poem commemorating the end of the First World War – by Stephen Wilkinson. Epiphoni had two raison d’etres in its founding year: 1) to live up to ambitious intentions by performing the widly adventurous, orchestrally-scored Strauss epic in his 150th anniversary year; 2) to commission and mount a musical dramatisation of the 1914 “Christmas Truce”, which we performed in the December of our founding (with a wonderful libretto by Rufus Stilgoe) and again in Armistice Centenary year, 2018. A recording of the Sassoon poem by David Bednall, exists in our discography so the selection of this text seems a fitting tribute.

Further programme items below.

Tickets (£25)