Rachel Nicholls, soprano

David Junghoon Kim, tenor

Claire Barnett-Jones, mezzo

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