All Souls: A Service of Remembering - with St Pancras Church Choral Scholars

This service of remembering provides opportunity to reflect on the fragility of life, to support those who grieve, and to remember before God loved ones who have died.

In our prayers we will be praying for those who live with grief and we will read names of the dead who people wish to be remembered. If you would like one or more of your deceased family or friends to be remembered in the service do contact Rev'd Jonathan Lee the associate priest at St Pancras Church (associatepriest@stpancraschurch.org ).

The service will include the Eucharist (you are welcome to receive communion at the appropriate point in the service, but equally free to refrain from receiving).

Musically, the service will include Maurice Duruflé's Requiem (Op.9), full, as it is, of tender gentleness. This will be accompanied on the organ by St Pancras Church's Director of Music, Douglas Tang, and those singing will include St Pancras Choral Scholars. If you are a singer yourself and if you know / could sightread the music after only a short rehearsal do email Douglas if you would be interested in joining in (directorofmusic@stpancraschurch.org).

Barry Creasy (Chairman, Collegium Musicum of London) has written of this requiem that "Duruflé's declared intention was 'to reconcile, as far as possible, Gregorian rhythm…with the exigencies of modern meter.' That is, he did not transcribe literally the original melodies with their irregular alternation of twos and threes; he adjusted the rhythms subtly so that larger metric patterns emerge, but still he allowed the meter to shift frequently so that a sense of spontaneity is preserved. At the same time, he clothed the sometimes archaic-sounding melodies in sophisticated harmonies of the early modern school. Although he came from a different liturgical tradition, Duruflé used similar texts to those used by Fauré in his requiem. The piece is in the true tendresse style, leaving out the chilling full Dies Irae and accentuating the aspect of forgiveness through the inclusion of a separate Pie Jesu and through constant repetition of the phrase 'Requiem aeternam dona eis Domine'. " 

Everyone is welcome to attend and tickets are not required.