The Diggers' Requiem by Raleigh's Pipe Band

Co-commissioned by Australian War Memorial and the Australian Government Department of Veterans’ Affairs. The Diggers’ Requiem was developed by Christopher Latham with the assistance of Peggy Polias & Ellie Cumming.

Incorporating Nigel Westlake’s The Glass Soldier commissioned by Don Farrands in memory of his grandfather Nelson H. Ferguson, in honour of his contribution to art and his virtuous life.

Orchestral score - April 2018 version - for performance in Amiens, April 2018

Overture: dedicated to all military and civilian victims of war Elena Kats-Chernin, The Silent Field *

Movement 1: REQUIEM AETERNAM, for Fromelles George Frideric Handel, “Dead March” from Saul *

Movement 2: KYRIE, for Pozières Frederick Septimus Kelly, The Somme Lament * (written October 28th 1916, two weeks before his death in the Somme)

Movement 3: TUBA MIRUM, for Bapaume Nigel Westlake/Alex Lithgow, Entering Bapaume †

Movement 4: LACRIMOSA, for Bullecourt Elena Kats-Chernin, The Fields of Bullecourt

Movement 5: VIRTUS ET CONSTANTIA, for the WWI Palestine Campaign Richard Mills, The Charge of Beersheba

Movement 6: DIES IRAE, the Third Battle of Ypres Nigel Westlake, The Age of Destruction †

Movement 7: SANCTUS FOR ICARUS, The Fall of Aces Nigel Westlake, Wooden Birds Fly Over the Valley of the Somme †

Movement 8: BENEDICTUS, Protecting Amiens Nigel Westlake, Symphonies of Glass and Stone †

Movement 9: LIBERA ME, for Villers-Bretonneux Nigel Westlake, I Was Blinded - But Now I See †

[Movement 10 omitted in April 2018 version]

Movement 11: PIE JESU, the Liberation of Péronne Graeme Koehne,
Pie Jesu: Prayer of Saint Joan of Arc

Movement 12: LUX AETERNA & IN PARADISUM, for Bellenglise and Montbrehain – the piercing of the Hindenburg Line Ross Edwards, Eternal Light (incorporating WW1 Pipe Master John Grant’s Lament
for the Pipers Lost in the Great War)

Encore Christopher Latham, Pie Jesu II: Prayer for Peace

(† from The Glass Soldier) (*arranged by Christopher Latham)

Orchestra
2 Flutes (1st & 2nd doubling on Piccolo)
2 Oboes (2nd doubling on Cor Anglais)
2 Clarinets in B flat (st1 doubling on Clarinet in A, Clarinet in E flat; 2nd doubling on Bass Clarinet)
2 Bassoons (2nd doubling on Contrabassoon)
4 Horns in F
3 Trumpets in C
2 Trombones
Bass Trombone
Tuba
Timpani
Percussion (4 players):
2 Concert Bass Drums, Piatti, Suspended Cymbals (& Double Bass bow), Crotales (2 Octaves), Triangle, Thundersheet, Wind Machine, 2 Snare Drums, Xylophone, Tam Tam, 4 Tom Toms (Large to Small), Wind Gong, 2 Air Raid Sirens (Mid Range & Low), Tubular Bells, Marimba, Vibraphone, Glockenspiel, Mounted Splash Cymbal, Glass Chimes, Metal Chimes, Woodblock, 3 Temple Blocks, Tenor Drum, Large Anvil.
2 Suspended Empty Shell Casings (or similar “Junk Metal”), to be played by Solo Trumpet and Accordion in Movement 6
Harp
SOLOISTS
1. Trumpet in C (also Piccolo Trumpet, Flugelhorn), also doubles on Suspended Empty Shell Casing in Movement 6
2. Accordion (amplified), also doubles on Suspended Empty Shell Casing in Movement 6
3. Piano (doubling on Celeste)
4. Soprano (amplified)
5. Mezzo-Soprano (amplified)
6. Bagpipes

SATB Choir (Audience to also sing in Encore)

Violin I (Solo Violin I line in Encore)
Violin II
Viola
Cello (Solo Cello line in Movement 7)
Double Bass

Pre-recorded material (for Movement 12)