Photo credit, above: Louis Amore
Echo and Pietà, performed by Bournemouth Symphony Chorus, Bournemouth Symphony Youth Chorus, Leeds Festival Chorus, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra with international soloists Jennifer Johnston (mezzo) and Stephen Gadd (baritone) plus Classical Brit award-winning saxophonist Amy Dickson conducted by Gavin Carr and Simon Wright.
Pietà, the third major work composed by Richard Blackford for the Bournemouth Symphony Chorus won the prestigious Ivor Novello Composer Award in 2020 for the Choral Category. Pietà is a powerful setting of the Stabat Mater with additional poems by the Ukrainian poet Anna Akhmatova. Echo was composed by Richard Blackford in memoriam for Sandrey Date a much-missed member and Trustee of the BSC. It is performed at Winchester to recognise Sandrey’s connection to Winchester College where he was a student having achieved the College’s first Music Exhibition award aged 12.
Bournemouth Symphony Chorus & Youth Chorus
Leeds Festival Chorus
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
Jennifer Johnston mezzo
Stephen Gadd baritone
Amy Dickon saxophone
Gavin Carr & Simon Wright conductors
Richard Blackford Echo
Fauré Requiem
Richard Blackford Pietà
