Live, Video: Find classical music concert, opera, ballet and dance reviews | Requiem

After Helen Grimes makes her Symphony Hall debut, Johannes Moser is the soloist in William Walton's Cello Concerto, before Maurice Duruflé's Requiem comes as welcome consolation. 

Light shines through tears in a concert with a luxurious line-up of VOCES8, the Academey of Ancient Music and Robert Hollingworth at the Milton Abbey Music Festival in Dorset. 

Parisian choral works by Fauré, Dupré and Duruflé performed by candle (and electric) light in Cheltenham College Chapel.

Despite being a little rough and ready at times, the Rodolfus Choir and superb Philharmonia captured a moving sense of stillness in these two popular works

Donald Runnicles conducts Duruflé's Requiem and orchestral Debussy at the Kennedy. 

At very short notice David Hill stepped in to conduct an all-French programme with the London Symphony Orchestra where serenity, elegance and passion were all beautifully communicated.

National Youth Choir of Scotland Chamber Choir and Lammermuir Festival Players delight in an imaginative programme of French and Estonian sacred music.

Thierry Fischer and the BBC National Orchestra of Wales presented an eclectic programme, with an exciting première by Simon Holt and the many different facets of 20th century French orchestral music.

Once upon a time it was standard practice that most public concerts in Britain would be preceded by the National Anthem; last night in Huddersfield Town Hall a great many members of the audience were caught off guard when a brass and percussion fanfare struck up into the loudest, most ecstatic rendition of ‘God Save the Queen’ I have ever heard.

Avec un programme consacré aux œuvres religieuses, le Chœur de Radio France a interprété avec plus ou moins de justesse les partitions de compositeurs français, habilement dirigé par Martina Batič. 

Un Requiem de chair et d'imploration, par Florian Helgath, Yves Castagnet et le Chœur de Radio France, mercredi 17 février. 

Programmer trois œuvres chorales de Johannes Brahms, Pascal Dusapin et Maurice Duruflé était déjà très une belle idée. Surtout, lorsque le chœur invité pour la circonstance est un des meilleurs ensembles européens, le RIAS Kammerchor. Magnifique soirée donc que ce concert donné à la Philharmonie 2 (anciennement Cité de la Musique), malheureusement devant une salle peu remplie.

Den Philharmonikern gelang ein gut aufeinander abgestimmtes, fein nuanciertes Zusammenspiel, mit dem sie die ganz unterschiedlich vertonte, tiefe Geistlichkeit der drei französischen Werke gekonnt herausarbeiteten.