Mozart Requiem & Poulenc Gloria

Our first concert of 2025 featured Mozart’s ever-popular Requiem, his final work which famously was incomplete at his early death, and which has been “completed” several times by various composers and scholars. We used the more traditional version attributed to Franz Xaver Süssmayr, who did know Mozart and sometimes worked with him. Also in our concert, as a contrasting theme to the Requiem, was Poulenc’s joyful Gloria. Holmfirth Choral has performed both these works more than once before to appreciative audiences, and this concert lived up to expectations. The Valley Sinfonia (leader Mary Barber) accompanied the works, and the soloists were Olivia Hunt (soprano), Hannah Cooper (contralto), William North (tenor), and Charlie Trueman (Bass). The concert was on Saturday March 22nd, and was enjoyed by a larger audience than other recent concerts, despite heavy rain at the time.