Organization

Brisbane Festival

Conductor

Simon Hewett

Singer

Soprano

Eva Kong

Tenor

Andrew Goodwin

Baritone

Hadleigh Adams

Bass

Others

Ensemble Q

Canticum Chamber Choir

Brisbane Concert Choir

Voices of Birralee

Orchestra

Brisbane Philharmonic Orchestra

Five of Brisbane’s finest ensembles join forces

South Brisbane

Australia

QPAC Concert Hall

Five of Brisbane’s finest ensembles join forces: War Requiem Britten

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War Requiem

Concert

Approved

Britten’s War Requiem is irrefutably one of the most significant symphonic choral works of the 20th Century – a passionate statement of the futility and senselessness of war.

The work is scored on the largest imaginable scale employing two separate orchestras, full adult choir, children's choir, and three vocal soloists.

Originally commissioned to mark the consecration of the new Coventry Cathedral – which was built after the original 14th-century structure was destroyed in a World War II bombing raid – Britten, a pacifist and conscientious objector, chose to set the Latin text of the Requiem Mass with nine poems by the celebrated English war poet, Wilfred Owen.

English

Five of Brisbane’s finest ensembles join forces by Britten, Various, From (2023/2023), Conductor Simon Hewett, QPAC Concert Hall, South Brisbane, Australia

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