Various - Richard Blackford: Piet? (Vocal Score)

At the core of Richard Blackford�s Piet� is a setting of the Stabat Mater; but it also includes two poignant poems by the celebrated Russian Anna Akhmatova from Requiem. The poems echo the words in Stabat Mater reflecting the grief of a mother for her son. Her struggle is immortalised in �Requiem�, her most famous work. Alternating between elegy, lamentation and witness. When the Bournemouth Symphony Chorus studied the work for the first time, conductor Gavin Carr wrote: �It is so compact, and so powerful: the intensity is incredible, and the release at the end is remarkable.�