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HAVPCD271 – Requiem and Missa brevis Dom Sebastian Wolff O.S.B.

The Requiem, composed specifically as an act of worship and remembrance rather than as a concert work, dates from 1988-91. In the composer’s words, it is ‘a modest attempt to express in sound a deep feeling of supplication to God for people who died in this [20th] century of violence.’ The Missa brevis was written in response to a request by the Headmaster of Buckfast Abbey School for a musical work to mark the Feast of Our Lady of Buckfast in May 1985.