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St Martin-in-the-Fields
Trafalgar Square
Westminster
London
WC2N 4JJ
England
Programme
Johann Sebastian Bach – Komm, Jesu, komm (motet), BWV 229
Leonie Holmes – Der Weg
Joseph Twist – The Peace of Wild Things
Takerei Komene – Ranginui
Anthony Ritchie – Es ist ein Ros’ entsprungen
Robert Wiremu – Mozart Reimagined: Requiem
Reuben Rameka – Waitā (The Star of Salt Water)
Performers
Sofi Jeannin – Conductor
Karen Grylls – Conductor
BBC Singers
Voices New Zealand
Aurora Orchestra
Programme Note
The BBC Singers join forces with one of the finest choirs of the southern hemisphere, Voices New Zealand, for a concert celebrating choral music from Australia and New Zealand with European influences.
As part of the programme both choirs perform the world premiere of a new work by the young New Zealand composer Takerei Komene. At the heart of the programme is Robert Wiremu’s Reimagined Requiem: Mozart Erebus, which “commemorates the Air New Zealand Flight TE901 disaster, which crashed into Mount Erebus in Antarctica in November 1979. Wiremu weaves a narrative around the event by imagining that fragments of Mozart’s unfinished Requiem, perhaps carried on a personal cassette player, are scattered by the wind across the Antarctic landscape at the moment of impact. The piece incorporates elements of the original Requiem but presents them in a fragmented and altered way, reflecting the tragedy of the air disaster.
