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BBC Singers and Voices New Zealand

Friday 14 November 2025

7:30 pm - 9:30 pm

The BBC Singers join forces with one of the finest choirs of the southern hemisphere, Voices New Zealand, for a concert celebrating choral music from Australia and New Zealand with European influences. As part of the programme both choirs perform the world premiere of a new work by the young New Zealand composer Takerei Komene. At the heart of the programme is Robert Wiremu’s Reimagined Requiem: Mozart Erebus, which “commemorates the Air New Zealand Flight TE901 disaster, which crashed into Mount Erebus in Antarctica in November 1979. Wiremu weaves a narrative around the event by imagining that fragments of Mozart’s unfinished Requiem, perhaps carried on a personal cassette player, are scattered by the wind across the Antarctic landscape at the moment of impact. The piece incorporates elements of the original Requiem but presents them in a fragmented and altered way, reflecting the tragedy of the air disaster.

J.S. Bach Komm, Jesu, Komm BWV 229
Leonie Holmes Der Weg
Joseph Twist The Peace of Wild Things
Takerei Komene Ranginui (World Premiere)
Rueben Rameka Waitā (the star of salt water)
Anthony Ritchie Es ist ein Ros’ entsprungen
Robert Wiremu Reimagined Requiem: Mozart Erebus

BBC Singers
Voices New Zealand
Sofi Jeannin Conductor
Karen Grylls Conductor

Dates, Times & Book

Fri 14 Nov 7:30 PM £35/£30/£25/£16/£10 Book

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