Vashon Island Chorale will present its annual spring concert at 7:30 p.m. Saturday and at 3 p.m. Sunday at Bethel Church.

Artistic Director Gary Cannon chose two works — “From the Bavarian Highlands” by Edward Elgar and “Messe de Requiem” by Gabriel Fauré. He explained the pieces are contrasting compositions.

“One (is) secular, the other sacred; one English, the other French; one with piano, the other with chamber orchestra; one largely a boisterous romp and the other gentle in mood,” he said in a recent email.

Elgar’s piece is set to six poems written by his wife Alice during the couple’s regular excursions to southern Bavaria. Each song describes a different story of their trip.

Fauré began composing his requiem mass in 1887. He made some unusual decisions in his choice of texts, omitting the traditional “Dies irae” or day of judgement sequence and borrowing the “In paradisum” from the burial liturgy. Fauré completed the piece in 1893.

Pianist Linda Lee will perform for the Elgar piece, and Karin Choo will be the concert mistress for the 15-piece chamber orchestra in the requiem. Glenn Guhr and the Vashon-based soprano Holly Boaz will sing solos.

Tickets are $18, $15 for seniors, $5 for youth to age 18 and are sold at brownpapertickets.org and at the Vashon Bookshop.