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DAVID BEDNALL REQUIEM
and other choral works
The Chamber Choir of St Mary’s Calne
Philip Dukes Viola, David Bednall Organ Edward Whiting Director

"Mixing imagination with musical traditions, David Bednall's recently completed and extensive Requiem is one of the most enjoyable British choral works to have emerged for decades. Avoiding modern atonality, it is a score that challenges singers and fascinates the ear. The accompaniment for viola and organ is so skilfully deployed you feel it is a chamber orchestra. The girls from the Wiltshire school of St Mary's, Calne, are superb by any standard and Bednall's organ playing is thrilling."