Pietà, the third major work composed by Richard Blackford for the Bournemouth Symphony Chorus won the prestigious Ivor Novello Composer Award in 2020 for the Choral Category. Pietà is a powerful setting of the Stabat Mater with additional poems by the Russian poet Anna Akhmatova. Echo was composed by Richard Blackford in memoriam for Sandrey Date a much-missed member and Trustee of the BSC. It is performed at Winchester to recognise Sandrey’s connection to Winchester College where he was a student having achieved the College’s first Music Exhibition award aged 12.

Works and composers

Blackford Echo
Fauré Requiem
Blackford Pietà