• Donald Swann
  • Requiem for the Living

  • J Curwen & Sons Ltd (World)

C. Day Lewis's poem was first published in THE GATE in 1962. This highly original re-interpretation of the Requiem Mass is a vivid plea for men to abolish nuclear weapons and to respect the beauty of the world, which they threaten to destroy.

  • pf.cim/perc
  • SATB
  • speaker, Mezzo Soprano (or baritone)
  • 35 min