The second performance of the Requiem came a week later, at our Remembrance Sunday service. We would not normally do an entire Mass setting, but we were playing host to a visiting choir, conducted by a former organist who now works in Denmark, and mixing Danish singers with some from Bristol, where he also used to conduct a choir. Several of the regular Christ Church singers joined them in singing the Duruflé.<\/p>\n
We sang all of the Requiem apart from the Offertory, using some movements to replace hymns. I had to adjust considerably, not only to performing in a much smaller space (and with some different tempi) but also to the rather purer Nordic sound.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The second performance of the Requiem came a week later, at our Remembrance Sunday service. We would not normally do an entire Mass setting, but we were playing host to a visiting choir, conducted by a former organist who now … Continue reading