This year we did the Fauré Requiem again for All Souls. This is the third time in the lifetime of this blog that I’ve performed this piece so I’m beginning to run out of things to say about it. There was one difference in this particular performance: I sang the Pie Jesu. Although I learnt this a long time ago, this was the first time I’d performed it. It has a particular difficulty you get also in some of Fauré’s songs: a lot of continuous singing without any significant break. I think my anecdote about the restaurant in York and the Libera Me will have to wait for another time, as I have a backlog of things to write about.
Just time to mention that my husband went to the ENO Aida in London. This is designed by Zandra Rhodes, something which he felt you weren’t allowed to forget! In that it resembles the Magic Flute I went to at the Met in New York a couple of years ago. But he was reasonably happy with the singing.