A large appreciative audience came to Trinity Church, Leek and produced just the right atmosphere to encourage a super performance of Faure’s Requiem from The Phoenix Singers, conducted by their Musical Director Ashley Thompson in this concert raising money for Douglas Macmillan Hospice.
The Faure Requiem made up the second half of the concert but Faure was also included in the first half with his Cantique de Jean Racine for choir accompanied by Amy Wakefield on piano and also Lucy Johnston Jones playing the Berceuse in D for violin accompanied on piano by Ashley Thompson. The concert was completed by the choir singing Stanford’s “Beati Quorum Via” and Ashley Thompson’s “We Light a Candle” and “Fear No More”.
This concert remembering two of the choir’s founder members Angela and David Briggs, who both sadly passed away recently, attracted a large varied audience who not only showed great appreciation during the concert but also made the night a very successful social event both in the interval and at the end of the concert as everyone mixed together, a night David and Angela would have loved.
Concert at Trinity Church, Leek
Phoenix Festival Quartet
Amy Wakefield,Sarah Balfour, Robert Wakefield, Robert Williams
Simon Baker – Organist
Afternoon Rehearsal
