The new Requiem setting by Gerald Hendrie

This work is for SATB & organ, with optional solo cello and timpani, is very much in the French style, with a distinctive organ part. The text is partially in Latin (outer movements) and English (appropriate Psalm settings in the Coverdale translation as used in UK Anglican cathedrals: in addition to performances of the entire work,  individual psalm settings can of course be used as anthems at any time of the liturgical year. It is a work deserving of a North American premiere and commercial recording in a spacious acoustic and with a French-style organ.

 

Dr. Hendrie is now resident in France, where he gives regular piano and organ recitals: previously he taught at is recthe university in Vancouver and was Professor of Music at UK’s The Open University. His other published choral music is sung widely in the UK, where he has written for the choirs of St. Paul’s Cathedral, Canterbury Cathedral, St. John’s College, Cambridge and New College, Oxford. His recital organ music includes “Le Tombeau de Marcel Dupre” (four separate extended movements) : one movement is recorded by John Scott in New Yori City (Priory Records).His newly published Sonatas “In Praise of Reconciliation” (one for organ and one for piano) draw attention to the severity of damage inflicted upon the City of Coventry UK and its cathedral, and in the city of Dresden during World War II: they have received performances in UK and Germany but not as yet in North America or Canada.

 

All Dr. Hendrie’s music is available from Worldwide Music International ()