John Rutter: Requiem

What to expect

Bristol Phoenix Choir performs John Rutter's Requiem and other choral works.

Rutter's Requiem is one of the best-loved and most widely performed choral works of the twentieth century.

Rutter's Requiem has seven sections that form an arch-like meditation on life and death.

The choir commissioned The Singing Will Never Be Done after the last First World War veteran died and first performed it in 2006.

It includes a short narrative on the Christmas Truce and a setting of Siegfried Sassoon’s poem Everyone Sang.

Janáček’s setting of The Lord's Prayer is described as raw, intimate and dramatic.

• John Rutter's Requiem
• Mark Lawrence’s The Singing Will Never be Done
• Janáček's The Lord's Prayer (Otčenáš)
• Franck's Panis angelicus
• Stanford's For, lo, I raise up
• First performed in 2006
• Includes a narrative on the Christmas Truce
• Sets Siegfried Sassoon’s poem Everyone Sang
• Soloist: Mike Gormley (tenor)
• With choristers of Bristol Cathedral Choir
• Organ: Andrew Kirk
• Harp: Julia Hammersley
• Percussion: Giorgio Fabrizio
• Conductor: Paul Walton