‘Music lifts the words to a level that speech alone can never reach’ Donald Swann’s Requiem for the Living

Florence Lockheart
Monday, October 9, 2023

Donald Swann's pacifist work made a huge impression on Clare Stevens as a teenager in Belfast in 1970s. Here, she revisits the Requiem with members of Gloucester Choral Society ahead of their season-opening performance of the work later this week

Swann's Requiem for the Living will receive a rare performance later this week © Donald Swann Archive
Swann's Requiem for the Living will receive a rare performance later this week © Donald Swann Archive

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