Cenotaph Requiem

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Cenotaph Requiem was composed in 2018 by Lieutenant Colonel Simon Haw MBE, Commanding Officer, Bands of the Household Division as a universal act of Remembrance and a reflection of service to the nation given by the Armed Forces.

The work includes a number of choral texts from the Requiem Mass – Introit, Kyrie, Sanctus, Agnus Dei, Pie Jesu, In Paradisum – to form a Requiem structure, interspersed with five instrumental movements – Marne, Gallipoli, Jutland, Somme and Passchendaele – which provide a chronological narrative of the First World War.

Cenotaph Requiem was given its world-premiere performance on 1 November 2018 in the Guards’ Chapel at Wellington Barracks in London, performed to an invited audience by the Orchestra of the Household Division, Commonwealth Scholars’ Choir and Commonwealth Children’s Choir.