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RECORDINGS
18 of the Requiem's 28 movements have been recorded, 14 of them on One Equal Music, whose three interludes quote The Flower and Why restless, why cast down?
| The Day of Wrath | |
|---|---|
| 1.1 Cogita, anima | One Equal Music |
| 1.2 Requiem aeternam | One Equal Music, track 2 |
| 1.3 Kyrie | not yet recorded |
| 1.4 O malleable Truth | not yet recorded |
| 1.5 There is a green hill | One Equal Music as There is a green hill far away · Jerusalem-Yerushalayim as Interlude · Jerusalem-Yerushalayim [remastered Jubilee Edition] at Bandcamp as Interlude · Old Masters as There is a green hill far away (STUDIO) |
| 1.6 Dies irae (Procession of the Cross) | not yet recorded |
| The Harrowing of Hades | |
| 2.7 Thou wast present as on this day | One Equal Music · In illo tempore as VIIa. Thou wast present as on this day … in the tomb |
| 2.8 Out of the Depths | not yet recorded |
| 2.9 The strife is o'er | Long days to come |
| 2.10 The Flower | Known Unknown at tonusperegrinus · Old Masters · One Equal Music, track 5 (quoted) |
| 2.11 Why restless, why cast down? | Like As The Hart · One Equal Music · One Equal Music, track 11 (quoted) · One Equal Music, track 16 (quoted) |
| 2.12 Sanctus | not yet recorded |
| 2.13 Pie Jesu (Prayer of the Heart) | One Equal Music |
| The Bread of Angels | |
| 3.14 Adoro Te devote | One Equal Music · Seven Letters & other sacred music as Adoro Te · Old Masters as Adoro Te |
| 3.15 On Time | not yet recorded |
| 3.16 Hasten, O God | not yet recorded |
| 3.17 Agnus Dei | not yet recorded |
| 3.18 Lux aeterna / Kontakion of the Departed | One Equal Music as Lux aeterna (Kontakion of the Departed) |
| 3.19 Libera me, Domine | One Equal Music · Old Masters as Libera me |
| The Hope of Glory | |
| 4.20 Bring us, O Lord God | One Equal Music as Bring us, O Lord God ("one equal music") |
| 4.21 In My Father’s House | One Equal Music as In My Father's House |
| 4.22 In Paradisum | One Equal Music, track 14 |
| 4.23 Remember your Creator | not yet recorded |
| 4.24 Miserere Domine | Hymns and Songs of the Church at Naxos |
| 4.25 The Twinkling of an Eye (Fanfare of the Last Trumpet) | not yet recorded |
| 4.26 They shall awake | One Equal Music as Bring us, O Lord God ("one equal music") |
| 4.27 Love bade me welcome | One Equal Music |
| 4.28 Amen | Seven Letters & other sacred music |
EXPLORE
THE STORY
Requiem for the Time of the End is Antony Pitts's op. 210, a Requiem written, revised, and gathered over two decades: the catalogue records its composition from 2006 through 2025, and the printed edition dates individual motets from as early as 1987 and 1990 through to 2019. The work stands in four cantatas, The Day of Wrath, The Harrowing of Hades, The Bread of Angels, and The Hope of Glory, and its own artwork calls for SATBB solo, SSAATTBB consort, and SATB(div.) chorus, with peripatetic violin, saxophone quartet, percussion, harp, glockenspiel, electric bass, and off-stage brass. In June 2025, 1equalmusic released One Equal Music, twelve of the motets in sixteen tracks sung by TONUS PEREGRINUS, and the ensemble's own film of the Lux aeterna carries the movement's closing words: 'Death, where is your sting?'
ONE EQUAL MUSIC
PHOTOBOOK
The album as a book: a special edition photobook, printed to order.
ORIGINS
The Requiem was originally inspired by the death of Alexander Litvinenko in 2006: the programme note for They shall awake speaks of 'the composer's extensive Requiem inspired by the death of Alexander Litvinenko', and the printed edition of the twelve motets says the same. The album's title reaches back further, to John Donne: They shall awake, the Requiem's coda, sets Donne's words 'no noise nor silence but one equal music' from A Sermon Preached at White-hall, February 29, 1627/8, and the twelfth motet is Bring us, O Lord God ('one equal music'). Several movements began life long before the Requiem itself: the edition dates Libera me, Domine to 1987/2024, Adoro Te devote to 1999/2019, and There is a green hill far away to 1990/2009.
MUSOGRAPHY
The musography: how this project connects, drawn live from the Equal Music graph and linked to where each connection comes from.
PEOPLE
Antony Pitts
composed the Requiem, op. 210, and conducts on the ensemble's own film of the Lux aeterna.
TONUS PEREGRINUS
sing the twelve motets on One Equal Music. On the Lux aeterna film: Joanna Forbes L'Estrange, Rebecca Hickey, Kathryn Knight, Alexander L'Estrange, Benedict Hymas, Alexander Hickey, Alex Knight, and Francis Brett.
Rob Macdonald
bass soloist in the Lux aeterna, asking its closing question: Death, where is your sting?
Simon Hewitt Jones
violin on the Lux aeterna film.
Lyndon Jones
recorded the Lux aeterna at St Peter's Italian Church, Clerkenwell, London.
Alexander Litvinenko
whose death in 2006 originally inspired the Requiem.
The Song Company
brought movements of the Requiem to Sydney: Thou wast present as on this day in In Tempore Paschali (2016), and In Paradisum in Fullness of Joy (2022).
PRESS
“...Pitts’s Requiem for the Time of the End – In Paradisum shimmered... A very adroit and virtuoso concert of Renaissance polyphony and related modern works. The music and voices were burnished and compelling.”
“Each section also worked in Thou wast present as on this day from Pitts’ Requiem for the Time of the End. The unifying element was the fluidity of time, the connection between past, present and future and, of course, the musical thread of polyphony that can arouse a sense of the eternal in the hands of a dexterous composer.”
“A collection of settings of Psalm 42 in various translations curated by Catherine Alette Clover, author of New College-themed novel The Templar’s Garden... Antony Pitts’s Why restless, why cast down?”
“‘This is an arresting and impressive piece that grabbed and held my attention... Pitts responds to the image-rich words with very intense music.’”
“Described as a vocal symphony, One-Equal-Music is something of a requiem to the World War I fallen...”
“★★★★½ ‘One of music’s most remarkable experiences is to listen to Thomas Tallis’s 40-part motet, Spem in alium, from ‘within’...’”
“‘There is a green hill far away should be in every high school choral library. It is a wonderful teaching resource for the late Renaissance style even though it is newly composed.’”
“9/10 ‘...this is more than a museum piece as Antony Pitts, the director and organist of Tonus Peregrinus, and Alexander L’Estrange, the counter-tenor and double-bassist...’”
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PRINTED EDITIONS
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LICENSING
Requiem for the Time of the End (op. 210) and its movements are published by 1equalmusic: the selected motets are listed in the score catalogue at one.equal.music, with print-on-demand fulfilled by Lulu, and the PDFs on the PERFORM tab are free with an Equal Music sign-in. The recording (One Equal Music, 1EMOEM, sixteen tracks from the twenty-eight movements) is a 1equalmusic release, streamed here through the Equal Music Player and linked to the streaming services. Texts include the Latin Requiem, the Liturgy of the Catholic Apostolic Church (Holy Saturday), John Donne, George Herbert, and John Milton. If you would like to perform this music, we would love to hear from you: use the link below, or the Connect tab. The PDFs on the PERFORM tab are for your own use. Write to us about performing this music
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