Brighton Festival Chorus joined Coventry Cathedral Chorus and the Pro Anima Orchestra for this performance of Verdi Requiem. This concert was part of the City of Coventry’s Peace Festival, an annual celebration of the city’s place as the UK’s only city of Peace and Reconciliation. Coventry is also the UK’s City of Culture 2021.
Soprano – Ilona Domnich, Tenor – Gwilym Bowen, Baritone – Lawrence White . Coventry Cathedral Chorus, Coventry Cathedral Choristers,
One of the greatest choral works of the twentieth century, Britten’s War Requiem was written for the consecration of the new Coventry Cathedral in 1962. The Chorus has sung this monumental work 16 times, most notably in Diksmuide in Belgium on Armistice Day in 1988 – a performance never forgotten by those taking part for the resonance with the nearby trench warfare and destruction of the countryside. The most recent performance was part of the celebrations of the Chorus’ 50th anniversary, notable for the vivid connection with the audience being sung without a score.