21 May 2015

Solemn Requiem for Richard III

A Solemn Requiem for King Richard III will be celebrated, according to the usus antiquior of the Roman Rite, at Fotheringhay Church on 13 June.

Celebrant: Fr Guy Nicholls, Cong. Orat.
With music by the Schola Gregoriana of Cambridge and Divers Voyces, with La Dolce Gamba (viol consort)
Where: Fotheringhay Church, Northants
When: Saturday 13 June, at 4 p.m.

The music will include plainsong, English fifteenth-century polyphony and a new motet in honour of the king.

Retiring collection. Supported by the Richard III Society and the Friends of Fotheringhay Church.

(Richard III was born at Fotheringhay Castle.)

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