Duruflé Requiem: Visions of Life & Death

Michael Waldron: Conductor
Kate Howden: Mezzo Soprano
Pauls Putnins: Baritone

Britten: Te Deum in C (version for choir & orchestra)
Oliver Rudland: New Work
Poulenc: Quatre motets pour un temps de pénitence
Tarik O’Regan: Care Charminge Sleepe
Bainton arr. Owain Park: And I Saw a New Heaven
Duruflé: Requiem
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The London Choral Sinfonia presents a concert of reflective and uplifting music for the lenten season. Featuring Poulenc’s stunning Lenten Motets and a world premiere by the LCS Composer-in-Residence, Oliver Rudland, join some of London’s finest young musicians for a programme featuring composers Tarik O’Regan, Edgar Bainton and Benjamin Britten.

The second half features Duruflé’s stunning Requiem. Dedicated to the memory of his father, Duruflé completed the work in 1947. It stands as one of the most beautiful Requiem settings ever composed.