WIMF 2025 Programme

REQUIEM

Sophie Bevan and Gareth Brynmor John
November 8, 2025
20:00
St John the Baptist, Spencer Hill SW19 4NZ
Evening: £40/£28/£20 and £10 students

The Academy Choir of Wimbledon
London Mozart Players

Sophie Bevan, soprano
Gareth Brynmor John, baritone

Taverner The Lamb
Svyati (‘O Holy One’)

Fauré Requiem (1893 version ed. Rutter)

 

Wimbledon’s beloved Academy Choir returns with Fauré’s serene and radiant Requiem, joined by the London Mozart Players. Also featured are two works by Sir John Tavener: The Lamb, a poignant setting of William Blake’s poetry, and Svyati, a spiritual choral piece for cello and choir in Church Slavonic drawing on Orthodox funeral rites. This marks the Choir’s first performance under their new Music Director, following a distinguished partnership with the late Matthew Best.

Retiring collection in aid of Medical Life Lines Ukraine