We’re really looking forward to being back at St Laurence Church to sing this serene and uplifting mass to celebrate 100 years of Gabriel Fauré.  We will also be singing his Cantique de Jean Racine – a sublimely beautiful setting of words by the 17th century dramatist and poet Jean Racine. It was Fauré’s first significant composition, written in 1865 whilst he was in his final year at the École Niedermeyer, the ‘École de musique religieuse et classique.