Movements and Structure
The work consists of six movements:
- Requiem aeternam (10 minutes)
- Requiem aeternam (chorus and boys' choir)
- "What passing bells" (tenor solo) – Owen's "Anthem for Doomed Youth"
- Dies irae (27 minutes)
- Dies irae (chorus)
- "Bugles sang" (baritone solo) – Owen's "Voices"
- Liber scriptus (soprano solo and semi-chorus)
- "Out there, we walked quite friendly up to death" (tenor and baritone soli)- Owen's "The Next War"
- Recordare (women's chorus)
- Confutatis (men's chorus)
- "Be slowly lifted up" (baritone solo) – Owen's "Sonnet On Seeing a Piece of our Heavy Artillery Brought into Action"
- Reprise of Dies irae (chorus)
- Lacrimosa (soprano and chorus) interspersed with "Move him, move him" (tenor solo) Owen's "Futility"
- Offertorium (10 minutes)
- Domine Jesu Christe (boys' choir)
- Quam olim Abrahae (chorus)
- Isaac and Abram (tenor and baritone soli)- Owen's "The Parable of the Old Man and the Young"
- Hostias et preces tibi (boys' choir)
- Reprise of Quam olim Abrahae (chorus)
- Sanctus (10 minutes)
- Sanctus and Benedictus (soprano solo and chorus)
- "After the blast of lightning" (baritone solo) – Owen's "The End"
- Agnus Dei (4 minutes)
- Agnus Dei (chorus) interspersed with "One ever hangs" (chorus; tenor solo) – Owen's "At a Calvary near the Ancre"
- Libera me (23 minutes)
- Libera me (soprano solo and chorus)
- Strange Meeting ("It seemed that out of battle I escaped") (tenor and baritone soli) – Owen's "Strange Meeting"
- In paradisum (All)
- Conclusion -Requiem Aeternam and Requiescant in Pace (Organ, Boys` choir and Mixed Chorus)
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