A festive morning concert bringing together Israeli song, beloved choral repertoire, and one of the great masterpieces of the French tradition.

In the first part of the concert, the Bat-Kol Choir, conducted by Anat Morag, takes center stage in a varied program spanning different periods, styles, and musical languages. Alongside a movement from Vivaldi’s Gloria and Fauré’s Cantique de Jean Racine, the choir will perform beloved works and arrangements from Israeli and international repertoire, including “Be’eretz Ahavati” (“In the Land I Love”), “Chad Gadya,” “Akara,” “Mizmor Layla,” “Over the Rainbow,” and “Hallelujah,” as well as The Bells of the Fields by Estonian composer Urmas Sisask.

In the second part of the concert, the Maayan Choir, conducted by Assaf Benraf, joins Bat-Kol for a joint performance of Gabriel Fauré’s Requiem. Unlike more dramatic and turbulent settings of the Requiem, Fauré created a work filled with tenderness, compassion, and light — music that offers consolation and serenity rather than fear and awe. From its restrained opening to the sublime moments of the Pie Jesu and In Paradisum, the work unfolds in a luminous, intimate, and deeply moving French sound world.

The two choirs are joined by soloists Naomi Burla-Levi, soprano, and Yair Polishook, baritone, together with the Zhanna Gandelman Quintet, for a festive performance in the Recanati Hall of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art.

A concert that begins with the distinctive and colorful voice of the Bat-Kol Choir and gradually expands into a grand choral encounter filled with warmth and light in Fauré’s beloved masterpiece.