Video Catchup - All Souls Service with Duruflé Requiem, 3 November 2025

About the Event

This candle lit evening eucharist for All Souls provided opportunity to reflect on the fragility of life, to support those who grieve, and to remember before God loved ones who have died.

Music

The service includes Maurice Duruflé's Requiem (Op.9). This is accompanied on the organ by St Pancras Church's Director of Music, Douglas Tang who also directs the choir (after just a couple of hours' rehearsals). The choir includes St Pancras Church's Choral Scholars (with solos by Katie Santi and Nat Morley) as well as nearly twenty volunteers for the evening. A big thank you to all who took part and especially to Douglas.

If you would like to come and sing for fun at St Pancras Church on future occasions

(whether this be on some Sundays mornings or at our monthly evensong services or on an occasional event basis) please email our Rev'd Jonathan Lee, associatepriest@stpancraschurch.org.

We are hoping to develop the range of choral opportunities that we offer. Perhaps you could be part of this.

Duruflé's Requiem

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'. " 

Time & Location

03 Nov 2025, 18:00

St Pancras Church, Euston Rd., London NW1 2BA, UK