For someone who purportedly adored Tudor sacred music, Howells wrote surprisingly little to no contrapuntal imitation in his Requiem. It largely declaims the text in solid syllabic settings.

The Dessoff Choirs Unveils 2025-2026 Season Featuring Bach and More The season begins with Herbert Howells's Requiem on November 8, 2025.

It was pretty amazing. Possibly the greatest of Howells' masterpieces, the free-form requiem Hymnus Paradisi, will get a rare American performance on Sunday, Jan. 14.

Under the direction of Dr. Thomas Juneau, the chorale will perform Johann Sebastian Bach's Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben, Herbert Howells' Requiem, and the dramatic Dixit Dominus by George ...

Herbert Howells' "Requiem," a deeply personal piece written in a time of grief and then filed away for 40 years, was the compelling centerpiece of the Choral Arts Ensemble's concerts last weekend ...

Herbert Howells Deeply tinged by the English choral tradition, Howells’s music reflects a subtle and fastidious craftsman who was capable of a restrained, individual eloquence.

Herbert Howells’ Requiem for unaccompanied voices is an exquisite and deeply personal work, which the composer himself later turned to for inspiration after experiencing the most profound ...

The secret to performing Howells’s music – apart from ensuring those rich harmonies are bang in tune – is to catch its very English way of expressing deep feeling, which works by repression ...

Herbert Howells drew glory from a well of grief The Hymnus Paradis by Herbert Howells is the greatest piece of English choral music, says Simon Heffer - and unutterably moving.

Called Reflective Music for Remembrance, the programme will include music by English 20th century composers and features Herbert Howells’ Requiem, one of the most beautiful works in the English ...

Gabriel Fauré’s Requiem in D minor will be performed, along with Herbert Howells’s Take him, Earth, for Cherishing, which Howells composed following the death of President John F. Kennedy.