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Music review: Requiem A by Sven Helbig (Methodist Central Hall, Westminster)

Music review: Requiem A by Sven Helbig (Methodist Central Hall, Westminster)

Thursday, October 23, 2025
THE self-taught German composer Sven Helbig wrote his Requiem A in response to his own feelings of powerlessness and horror that conversations about possible and ongoing wars have again become part of everyday life. Given its première in Dresden i...