Video length: 05:18
The second in a series of short films in which John Rutter discusses the composition of his ‘Requiem’ (1985). Here, Rutter surveys the varying ways in which composers including Berlioz, Verdi, Fauré, Duruflé and Britten approached their settings of the liturgical text of the Requiem Mass, and explains his own desire to create a small-scale work focusing on consolation and the journey from darkness to light. Includes a brief reference to Rutter’s participation as a boy treble in the original recording of Britten’s ‘War Requiem’, under the baton of the composer.
