Verdi Requiem

VERDI Requiem

Rachel Nicholls, soprano

Claire Barnett-Jones, mezzo

David Junghoon Kim, tenor

Edward Grint, bass

Iain Farrington and Libby Burgess, piano

Paul Greally, organ

Tristan Fry, timpani/percussion

City of London Choir

Daniel Hyde, conductor

Sacred rites enacted with all the passion and drama of opera: Judgement Day confronts mortality with elegiac passages of spiritual intensity and enthralling choruses of terrifying drama. Verdi's mighty setting of the Requiem Mass, in the new version by Richard Blackford.

"If Verdi had intended to create a version of his Requiem for a pair of pianos, organ and percussions... this is exactly what the composer Richard Blackford has done. Every note that Verdi wrote is there, Blackford tells us, in a version that is intended to have ‘a distinctive soundworld of its own, not a watered-down reduction of Verdi’s original." BBC Music Magazine

Doors open at 7pm. Please note that the concert will last for approximately 80 minutes. There will be a short pause during the performance, but no interval. Refreshments will be available after the concert.

Details are correct at time of publication but subject to change. No refunds unless concert is cancelled.