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The Cathedral Choir will join with Wells Cathedral School Chamber Choir to offer a devotional performance of Maurice Duruflé’s Requiem, interspersed with readings, and with the now familiar and much appreciated ‘poppy drop’.

Duruflé’s Requiem is a compact, deeply meditative setting of the Latin Mass for the Dead completed in 1947. The score weaves much of its material from Gregorian chant, producing an unmistakably timeless sound world that balances the dread and woe of the 'Libera me' with the heavenly serenity of the final 'In paradisum'.

Admission FREE: retiring collection in aid of the Royal British Legion Poppy Appeal and Wells Cathedral.

This performance is part of a series of events marking Remembrance at Wells Cathedral: 80 years since the end of WWII, 1945–2025