Dan Forrest’s REQUIEM FOR THE LIVING and the 2025 RMP ARIA FINAL

Hear some of the nation’s finest young singers battle it out in the final of Australia’s most prestigious oratorio soloists award, accompanied on piano, as well as a spectacular orchestral performance of Dan Forrest’s stunning “Requiem for the Living” – a beautiful and uplifting work, which has been hailed as “… a twenty-first century masterpiece”.
Requiem for the Living is a major choral symphonic composition in five movements by young American composer Dan Forrest, who is quickly emerging as one of that country’s most popular and important choral composers. Completed in 2013, it is a non-conventional and extended setting of the Requiem Mass, scored for boy soprano, soprano, choir and orchestra, and organ. The Latin text that Forrest set combines sections from the Requiem with biblical texts from Ecclesiastes and the Book of Job.