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Howells Requiem

The pairing a major work of 20th unaccompanied British choral music, Herbert Howells' Requiem, with a major contemporary work, James MacMillan's Miserere, in a programme which includes music by William Byrd, Cecilia McDowall and William Harris.

Herbert Howells wrote his Requiem for unaccompanied choir in the 1930s, it was a first working through of ideas which he was to develop in Hymnus Paradisi for choir and orchestra. Unfortunately Howells' son Michael died of meningitis in 1935 and, troubled deeply, Howells did not release the music for publication though the Requiem had been written before Michael's death. It did not receive a performance until 1980.

It is not a requiem at all, but a profoundly moving setting of a series of texts taken from the Psalms, the Requiem Mass and Revelation. The lush harmonies reflect the terrible sadness of loss, and the ending of on the words They will rest from their labours, is one of poignant consolation.
7.30pm, Tickets free
Church of St Bartholomew the Less London EC1A 9DS
Thu 7 Apr 2022
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