Written for, and recorded by Barnaby Smith, VOCES8 and the VOCES8 Choir and Orchestra. The US Premiere will be on July 19, 2026 by Quintessence. Utilizing inspiration from both sacred and secular idioms, Davis’s Requiem is a work of both tumult and hope, including a beautiful setting of Siegfried Sassoon’s poem Idyll.
Contents:
I. Introit and Kyrie
II. Lacrimosa
III. Sanctus
IV. Agnus Dei
V. Idyll
VI. Requiem: In Paradisum