Dexter Drown returns to conduct East Oxford Community Choir and Ensemble Vocal Interlude from Grenoble in a performance of the Fauré Requiem (1890), a deeply emotional work that does not inspire terror of the last judgment in the face of death, but offers comfort and peace. Beautiful solos such as 'Pie Jesu' are interspersed with moving choruses including 'In Paradisum'. It was performed at Fauré’s funeral in 1924. The programme includes two other works by Fauré, the Cantique de Jean Racine (1865), which won first prize in a competition when the composer was only nineteen years old, and ‘Pavane'(1887), in the version for orchestra and chorus. Adding an English composer to this French programme, EOCC will sing Toward the Unknown Region by Ralph Vaughan Williams, the composer's first major choral piece, first performed in 1907, a setting of the poem 'Darest thou now, O Soul' from the American poet Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass, depicting the journey of the soul from death to eternal life.

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