musicChelsea, London
A Concert For Remembrance Day
Cadogan HallChelsea, London
11 November 2026 · 19:30
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TITLE: A Concert For Remembrance Day --- SUBTITLE: Dona Nobis Pacem --- DATE/TIME: Wednesday 11 November 2026, 7.30pm --- PROGRAMME: Finzi – Requiem da camera; Judith Weir – O sweet spontaneous earth; Vaughan Williams – Dona nobis pacem --- PERFORMERS: Hilary Cronin (soprano), baritone TBA, Britten Sinfonia, City of London Choir, Daniel Hyde (conductor) --- EVENT COPY: The City of London Choir presents two compelling British war requiems to commemorate the Armistice of 11th November 1918. Dona Nobis Pacem is Vaughan Williams' heartfelt response to his own experience of the First World War, written in the shadow of a looming second global conflict — a powerful and dramatic work that starkly decries the cruelty of war, its insistent cry for peace among nations and goodwill to all. Too young for active combat at the Front, Gerald Finzi was deeply affected by the deaths of close family and f
