Coro
dell'Accademia di Santa Cecilia

Coro dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
conductor Andrea Secchi
soprano Nathalie Peña-Comas
baritone Mikhaïl Timoshenko
cello Arianna Di Martino
piano Mirco Roverelli, Monaldo Braconi

Fauré
Cantique de Jean Racine op. 11
for choir and piano

D’Amico
Les Nuages
for mixed choir, cello, and piano four hands, on poetic texts by Hugo, Baudelaire, and Mallarmé
world premiere – commissioned by the National Academy of Santa Cecilia

Fauré
Requiem op. 48
Version d’église for soloists, choir, and ensemble

A French atmosphere pervades the concert featuring the Santa Cecilia Chorus, conducted by Andrea Secchi, performing the famous Requiem by Gabriel Fauré in a “chamber” version closer to the composer’s original idea. The softness of Fauré’s music is echoed in Nuages, a premiere by Roman composer Matteo D’Amico, written specifically for our choir and inspired by late 19th-century French poetry.