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City of London Choir performs Verdi's Requiem
Daniel Hyde conducts the arrangement by Richard Blackford
Part of the Summer Music in City Churches 2025 Festival
Add to my Calendar 27-06-2025 19:30 27-06-2025 21:30 36 City of London Choir performs Verdi's Requiem 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 edition by Richard Blackford. Kestrel Music presents its seventh annual festival, ‘Summer Music in City Churches’, 18 - 27 June 2025 – an eight-day celebration of music in the City of London. Choral requiem settings form the cornerstones, inspiring this year’s theme ‘Eternal Light’. Guest artists are drawn from the finest musicians performing internationally today, including the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and City of London Choir, conductors Sir John Rutter and Daniel Hyde, and soloists including guitarists Jack Hancher and Gus McQuade, pianists Iain Farrington, Lucy Parham, Mark Bebbington and Viv McLean, and singers Eleanor Grant, Edward Grint and Rachel Nicholls. Embracing the theme of ‘Eternal Light’ – sunrise, moonlight and reflected light in nature, as well as the everlasting light of remembrance – live music takes place in four of the historic churches in the City of London. Full details can be found on the website. St Giles Cripplegate, London DD/MM/YYYYDetails
St Giles Cripplegate
Fore Street
City of London
London
EC2Y 8DA
England
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Prices: £15 - £30
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Performers
Rachel Nicholls – soprano
David Junghoon Kim – tenor
Claire Barnett-Jones – mezzo-soprano
Edward Grint – Bass
Iain Farrington – piano
Libby Burgess – piano
Paul Greally – organ
Tristan Fry – timpani
Daniel Hyde – Conductor
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Programme Note
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 edition by Richard Blackford.
Kestrel Music presents its seventh annual festival, ‘Summer Music in City Churches’, 18 - 27 June 2025 – an eight-day celebration of music in the City of London. Choral requiem settings form the cornerstones, inspiring this year’s theme ‘Eternal Light’. Guest artists are drawn from the finest musicians performing internationally today, including the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and City of London Choir, conductors Sir John Rutter and Daniel Hyde, and soloists including guitarists Jack Hancher and Gus McQuade, pianists Iain Farrington, Lucy Parham, Mark Bebbington and Viv McLean, and singers Eleanor Grant, Edward Grint and Rachel Nicholls. Embracing the theme of ‘Eternal Light’ – sunrise, moonlight and reflected light in nature, as well as the everlasting light of remembrance – live music takes place in four of the historic churches in the City of London.
Full details can be found on the website.
