The 24 - Howells' Requiem

Brinsley sang with The 24 in the choir’s spring concert in the Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall, conducted by Robert Hollingworth. The programme ranged from Brahms’ double-choir Fest- und Gedenksprüche and Gombert’s Renaissance chanson to recent music by Joanna Marsh, Reena Esmail and Bernard Hughes, and ended with Howells’ Requiem, whose solos were taken by singers from the choir.¹

In the weeks beforehand the choir shared clips of itself rehearsing the crunchier chords of the Howells, and YorkConcerts billed the evening around the double-choir textures of the Howells and the Brahms.

Programme

Herbert Howells Requiem
Johannes Brahms Fest- und Gedenksprüche, Op. 109
Bernard Hughes Precious Things · Perhaps
Kim Porter Pulchra es et decora
Joanna Marsh Batter my heart
Reena Esmail TaReKiTa
Mark Edgley Smith Love is more thicker than forget
Nicolas Gombert J’ai mis mon cueur

Conductor: Robert Hollingworth

More: Photographs from the concert · Rehearsing the Howells · Concert announcement